Director: Tate Taylor Writer: Tate Taylor Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer Released: September 1, 2011 Rating: Runtime: 146 minutes Websites: Story: Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Emma Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives - and a Mississippi town - upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen (Viola Davis), Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up - to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter's life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories - and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly - and unwillingly - caught up in the changing times. Cast: Emma Stone Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan Viola Davis Aibileen Clark Bryce Dallas Howard Hilly Holbrook Octavia Spencer Minny Jackson Jessica Chastain Celia Foote Ahna O'Reilly Elizabeth Leefolt Allison Janney Charlotte Phelan Anna Camp Jolene French Eleanor Henry Mae Mobley Emma Henry Mae Mobley Chris Lowell Stuart Whitworth Cicely Tyson Constantine Jefferson Mike Vogel Johnny Foote Sissy Spacek Missus Walters Brian Kerwin Robert Phelan