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- THE HELP (2011)
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- I was born 1911, Chickasaw County,
- Piedmont Plantation.
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- 00:01:29,339 --> 00:01:30,932
- And did you know,
- as a girl growing up,
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- that one day you'd be a maid?
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- 00:01:33,343 --> 00:01:34,970
- Yes, ma'am, I did.
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- 00:01:35,137 --> 00:01:36,639
- And you knew that because...
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- My mama was a maid.
- My grandmama was a house slave.
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- House... slave.
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- 00:01:48,567 --> 00:01:50,615
- Do you ever dream
- of being something else?
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- 00:01:55,949 --> 00:01:57,792
- What does it feel like
- to raise a white child
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- 00:01:57,951 --> 00:02:00,750
- when your own child's at home being
- looked after by somebody else?
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- 00:02:03,206 --> 00:02:05,083
- It feel...
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- 00:02:16,386 --> 00:02:19,856
- I done raised 17 kids in my life.
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- 00:02:20,015 --> 00:02:23,315
- Looking after white babies,
- that's what I do.
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- 00:02:23,477 --> 00:02:26,401
- Aibee, Aibee.
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- 00:02:26,563 --> 00:02:28,611
- - Hi!
- - Aibee!
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- 00:02:28,774 --> 00:02:32,870
- I know how to get them babies to sleep,
- stop crying and go in the toilet bow/
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- before their mamas even
- get out of bed in the morning.
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- 00:02:37,115 --> 00:02:38,662
- Babies like fat.
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- 00:02:38,825 --> 00:02:41,795
- They like big fat legs, too.
- That I know.
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- You is kind, you is smart...
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- 00:02:46,458 --> 00:02:48,711
- ...you is important.
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- 00:02:48,877 --> 00:02:51,346
- - You is smart...
- - Smart...
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- 00:02:51,505 --> 00:02:54,054
- ...you is kind...
- - ...you is kind...
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- 00:02:54,216 --> 00:02:57,060
- ...you is important.
- - ...you is important.
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- That's so good.
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- 00:03:02,015 --> 00:03:03,437
- That's so good.
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- 00:03:06,061 --> 00:03:09,361
- I work for the Leefolts
- from eight to four; six days a week.
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- 00:03:09,523 --> 00:03:15,246
- I make 95 cent an hour.
- That comes to $182 every month.
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- 00:03:16,488 --> 00:03:21,836
- I do all the cooking, cleaning, washing,
- ironing and grocery shopping.
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- 00:03:25,038 --> 00:03:28,633
- But mostly, I take care of Baby Girl.
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- 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:32,088
- And, Lord, I worry she gonna be fat.
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- 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:34,756
- Mae Mobley.
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- Ain 't going to be
- no beauty queen either.
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- 00:03:37,217 --> 00:03:40,847
- Aibileen, bridge club is in an hour.
- Did you finish the chicken salad?
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- - Yes.
- - Oh, and Hilly's deviled eggs.
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- 00:03:43,181 --> 00:03:44,854
- - No paprika.
- - Mm-hm.
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- 00:03:46,727 --> 00:03:48,821
- Does this dress look homemade?
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- I reckon when you finish it won't.
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- 00:03:53,817 --> 00:03:55,740
- Well, thank you.
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- 00:03:55,902 --> 00:03:59,907
- Miss Leefolt still don't
- pick Baby Girl up but once a day.
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- 00:04:00,073 --> 00:04:03,452
- The birthing blues got hold
- of Miss Leefolt pretty hard.
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- 00:04:03,618 --> 00:04:05,916
- I done seen it happen plenty of times,
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- 00:04:06,079 --> 00:04:08,332
- once babies start having
- their own babies.
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- 00:04:18,925 --> 00:04:21,303
- And the young
- white ladies of Jackson...
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- 00:04:21,470 --> 00:04:24,098
- ...oh Lord, was they having babies.
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- 00:04:24,264 --> 00:04:26,062
- But not Miss Skeeter.
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- No man and no babies.
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- - Morning.
- - Hi.
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- 00:05:04,262 --> 00:05:06,356
- - My name is Eugenia Phelan, and...
- - Come on.
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- 00:05:16,441 --> 00:05:18,068
- Eugenia Phelan, Mr. Blackly.
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- 00:05:19,945 --> 00:05:22,118
- Shut the damn door.
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- 00:05:22,280 --> 00:05:25,750
- I guarantee you, one day they're going
- to figure out cigarettes will kill you.
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- OK, Miss Phelan,
- let's see what you got.
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- editor.
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- Ole Miss Rebel Rouser. editor.
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- Double major.
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- editor.
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- 00:05:41,758 --> 00:05:45,058
- - Damn, girl, don't you have fun?
- - Is that important?
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- 00:05:45,554 --> 00:05:47,522
- - Do you have any references?
- - Yes.
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- Right here.
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- 00:05:53,728 --> 00:05:56,151
- This...
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- This is a rejection letter.
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- Not exactly. See, Miss Stein thought...
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- Stein?
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- 00:06:02,737 --> 00:06:05,160
- Elaine Stein, from Harper and Row
- Publishing in New York.
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- 00:06:05,323 --> 00:06:06,540
- Oh, Lord.
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- 00:06:06,700 --> 00:06:08,418
- I'm gonna be a serious writer,
- Mr. Blackly.
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- I applied for a job,
- but Mrs. Stein thought...
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- She said no.
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- 00:06:13,999 --> 00:06:15,922
- Well, until I gain some experience.
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- See? Says right there.
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- "Great potential. Gain some experience
- and please apply again."
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- Oh, Christ. I guess you'll do.
- Do you clean?
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- - I'm sorry. Clean?
- - Clean.
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- Grab that basket.
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- 00:06:31,975 --> 00:06:35,479
- Miss Myrna has gone
- shit-house crazy on us.
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- 00:06:35,645 --> 00:06:38,114
- She drunk hairspray or something.
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- I want you to read her past columns.
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- Then read these letters and you
- answer them just like she would.
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- Nobody is gonna know
- the damn difference.
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- You know who Miss Myrna is?
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- I read her articles all the time.
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- Articles? Miss Phelan,
- it's a cleaning advice column.
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- Eight bucks a week.
- Copy is due on Thursday.
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- Hello?
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- Lou Ann, honey, I can't talk right now.
- I'm at work.
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- What? Shut that goddamn door.
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- Mama, we're late for bridge!
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- Miss Hilly was the first
- of the babies to have a baby.
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- ...Three...
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- And it must have come out of her like
- the 11th Commandment,
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- 'cause once Miss Hilly had a baby,
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- every girl at the bridge table
- had to have one, too.
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- Minny, go get Mama!
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- 00:07:47,425 --> 00:07:49,427
- Missus Walters,
- you need help coming down?
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- 00:07:49,594 --> 00:07:51,062
- - I'm down.
- - Ooh.
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- 00:07:51,221 --> 00:07:53,599
- - I been down.
- - Give me a heart attack.
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- Whoa, whoa, whoa, Missus Walters.
- Here, let me help you.
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- Take that off.
- It's 98 degrees out there.
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- - Is it?
- - Yes, ma'am.
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- 00:08:01,815 --> 00:08:03,488
- Well, let's put my coat on then.
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- 00:08:03,650 --> 00:08:05,698
- - Come on, Minny.
- - All right.
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- - Here's your pocketbook.
- - Thank you.
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- OK, let me get the pie.
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- 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:11,749
- Hold on, Missus Walters. Hold on.
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- 00:08:13,785 --> 00:08:18,006
- Once Missus Walters' arteries went hard,
- Miss Hilly moved her into her house
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- 00:08:18,164 --> 00:08:20,792
- and fired the maid she had
- to make room for Minny too.
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- 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:24,930
- See, Minny about the best cook
- in Mississippi,
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- 00:08:25,088 --> 00:08:26,681
- and Miss Hilly wanted her.
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- 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:32,395
- I lost my own boy, Treelore,
- four years ago.
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- After that, I just didn't want
- to live no more.
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- 00:08:37,434 --> 00:08:39,937
- It took God and Minny
- to get me through it.
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- Minn y my best friend.
- Old lady like me lucky to have her.
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- After my boy died, a bitter seed
- was planted inside of me.
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- 00:08:55,660 --> 00:08:58,539
- And I just didn't feel
- so accepting any more.
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- 00:09:12,135 --> 00:09:13,227
- No.
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- 00:09:13,386 --> 00:09:16,731
- You drunk up two glasses of grape juice.
- I know you got to tee-tee.
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- 00:09:16,890 --> 00:09:17,812
- No.
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- 00:09:17,974 --> 00:09:20,272
- I'll give you two cookies if you go.
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- 00:09:24,314 --> 00:09:26,863
- Mae Mobley, you're going!
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- 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,244
- Aibileen, the girls are
- pulling up, and the table isn't set.
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- 00:09:30,403 --> 00:09:32,906
- Mae Mobley go, Mama.
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- 00:09:33,073 --> 00:09:35,246
- Get in your room right now.
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- 00:09:36,993 --> 00:09:38,995
- Set out the dessert forks. Please.
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- 00:09:42,707 --> 00:09:45,301
- Put Mama in a chair
- before she breaks a hip.
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- I'm not deaf yet, Hilly.
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- Hey, girls.
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- 00:09:50,173 --> 00:09:55,680
- Oh. Minny. Will you see if Aibileen
- has some of that ambrosia?
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- 00:10:01,017 --> 00:10:02,769
- Hold on. Those are Miss Hilly's.
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- 00:10:02,936 --> 00:10:06,065
- She looks like the winning
- horse at the Kentucky Derby.
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- All flowers and bows.
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- 00:10:08,399 --> 00:10:09,901
- Got to have paprika on them.
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- Ooh.
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- 00:10:11,778 --> 00:10:15,157
- Forgive me, Lord, but I'm gonna have
- to kill that woman, Aibileen.
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- 00:10:15,323 --> 00:10:18,202
- Now she gone to putting pencil marks
- on my toilet paper.
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- 00:10:19,577 --> 00:10:21,079
- - Did she?
- - Mm-hm.
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- 00:10:21,246 --> 00:10:24,921
- But I carry paper in from my own
- damn house. That fool don't know.
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- 00:10:27,836 --> 00:10:29,930
- Miss Leefolt got so much hairspray
- on her head
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- 00:10:30,088 --> 00:10:32,307
- she gonna blow us all up
- if she light a cigarette.
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- 00:10:33,216 --> 00:10:35,310
- And you know she will!
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- 00:10:42,308 --> 00:10:44,151
- - You got some ambrosia?
- - You know I do.
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- 00:10:44,310 --> 00:10:45,857
- All right, I'll be back.
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- 00:10:46,020 --> 00:10:47,988
- Minny, cord, girl.
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- Shut up.
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- 00:10:51,067 --> 00:10:53,411
- The Guiding Light.
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- 00:10:56,573 --> 00:10:58,325
- Hi, Missus Walters.
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- 00:10:58,908 --> 00:11:00,831
- I'm watching my story.
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- 00:11:01,703 --> 00:11:02,750
- OK.
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- 00:11:02,912 --> 00:11:04,664
- Isn't it gorgeous?
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- 00:11:04,831 --> 00:11:05,832
- Sorry I'm late.
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- 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:10,132
- You're home!
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- 00:11:10,795 --> 00:11:12,388
- I missed you all, too.
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- 00:11:14,716 --> 00:11:18,016
- Well, if it isn't "Long Haul" Skeeter.
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- 00:11:18,178 --> 00:11:20,397
- We didn't ever think
- you'd leave Ole Miss.
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- 00:11:20,555 --> 00:11:22,899
- Well, it does take four years, Jolene.
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- 00:11:24,184 --> 00:11:27,814
- I've got a great summer planned for you.
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- 00:11:27,979 --> 00:11:29,196
- Great.
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- 00:11:29,355 --> 00:11:32,484
- I went ahead and I picked up my black
- dress from the cleaners this morning.
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- 00:11:35,403 --> 00:11:36,404
- What?
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- 00:11:37,405 --> 00:11:39,828
- - About supper club tonight.
- - What?
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- 00:11:41,618 --> 00:11:43,791
- Honey, Stuart had to cancel.
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- 00:11:43,953 --> 00:11:45,330
- Again?
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- 00:11:45,496 --> 00:11:48,215
- He got held up on the oil rig, Skeeter.
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- 00:11:48,374 --> 00:11:50,672
- It's... It's offshore.
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- 00:11:50,835 --> 00:11:54,635
- I'm starting to think this Stuart
- is a figment of your imagination,
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- 00:11:54,797 --> 00:11:56,049
- so just forget it.
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- 00:11:56,758 --> 00:11:58,101
- I'm just gonna go get a plate.
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- 00:11:58,259 --> 00:12:00,478
- - Shh!
- - Sorry!
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- 00:12:07,435 --> 00:12:08,778
- I got a job today.
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- 00:12:10,897 --> 00:12:12,490
- At The Jackson Journal.
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- 00:12:14,859 --> 00:12:16,953
- They'd be a fool not to hire you.
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- 00:12:17,111 --> 00:12:20,365
- To Skeeter and her job.
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- 00:12:20,531 --> 00:12:22,283
- Last stop till marriage.
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- 00:12:22,867 --> 00:12:23,663
- Oh!
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- 00:12:27,789 --> 00:12:29,917
- - It's for the Miss Myrna column.
- - Hmm.
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- 00:12:30,083 --> 00:12:32,177
- Elizabeth, can I talk to Aibileen?
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- 00:12:32,919 --> 00:12:36,093
- Just to help me with some of the letters
- till I get a knack for it.
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- 00:12:37,674 --> 00:12:39,017
- My Aibileen?
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- 00:12:39,926 --> 00:12:42,349
- Why can't you just
- get Constantine to help?
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- 00:12:47,558 --> 00:12:50,027
- Constantine quit us.
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- 00:12:50,186 --> 00:12:52,689
- Oh, my gosh. Skeeter, I'm so sorry.
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- 00:12:52,855 --> 00:12:57,110
- Anyway, I just, um... I don't really
- know how to answer these letters.
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- 00:12:57,777 --> 00:13:01,577
- Well, I mean, as long as it doesn't
- interfere with her work.
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- 00:13:01,739 --> 00:13:03,582
- I don't see why not.
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- 00:13:11,666 --> 00:13:12,792
- Leefolt residence.
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- 00:13:12,959 --> 00:13:14,927
- Hello. Is Elizabeth in?
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- 00:13:15,086 --> 00:13:17,555
- She having bridge club right now.
- May I take a message?
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- 00:13:17,714 --> 00:13:21,594
- Yes, please tell her Celia Foote
- called again.
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- 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:24,478
- I'll call back tomorrow.
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- 00:13:24,637 --> 00:13:26,685
- - Yes, ma'am.
- - Uh...
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- 00:13:26,848 --> 00:13:28,771
- Miss?
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- 00:13:28,933 --> 00:13:33,279
- I'm looking for some help at my house.
- Do you know any maids looking?
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- 00:13:33,438 --> 00:13:34,610
- No, ma'am.
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- 00:13:34,772 --> 00:13:37,275
- OK. It's Celia Foote.
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- 00:13:37,442 --> 00:13:41,117
- Emerson-684.
- Bye now.
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- 00:13:47,076 --> 00:13:49,704
- You scared the daylights out of me!
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- 00:13:50,538 --> 00:13:54,042
- It is lunchtime,
- and I am suddenly hungry.
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- 00:13:57,587 --> 00:13:59,464
- Honestly!
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- 00:14:04,802 --> 00:14:06,145
- Oh.
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- 00:14:06,304 --> 00:14:08,056
- I'm still working on it, Aibileen.
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- 00:14:11,642 --> 00:14:12,985
- Who was that on the phone?
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- 00:14:13,144 --> 00:14:15,238
- Miss Celia Foote called again.
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- 00:14:16,564 --> 00:14:18,441
- I've never called her back, Hilly.
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- 00:14:20,068 --> 00:14:22,241
- She can't take a hint, can she?
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- 00:14:22,403 --> 00:14:23,996
- Who's Celia Foote?
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- 00:14:24,155 --> 00:14:26,157
- That tacky girl Johnny married.
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- 00:14:26,324 --> 00:14:28,167
- From Sugar Ditch.
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- 00:14:28,326 --> 00:14:29,873
- It could have been you, Hilly.
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- 00:14:30,036 --> 00:14:35,384
- And live 30 minutes outside of town?
- No, thank you.
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- 00:14:35,541 --> 00:14:40,468
- Anyway, I ran into her at the beauty
- parlor, and she had the nerve to ask
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- 00:14:40,630 --> 00:14:42,678
- if she could help with
- the Children's Benefit Ball.
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- 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:46,014
- Aren't we taking non-members?
- The benefit has gotten so big.
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- 00:14:46,177 --> 00:14:49,272
- Yes, but we're not telling her.
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- 00:14:51,974 --> 00:14:53,567
- Thank you, Aibileen.
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- 00:14:59,023 --> 00:15:00,866
- Hilly, I wish you'd just
- go use the bathroom.
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- 00:15:01,025 --> 00:15:02,527
- I'm fine.
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- 00:15:02,693 --> 00:15:04,445
- Oh, she's just upset
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- 00:15:04,612 --> 00:15:07,365
- because the nigra uses the guest bath
- and so do we.
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- 00:15:10,868 --> 00:15:12,996
- Aibileen, go check on Mae Mobley.
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- 00:15:13,162 --> 00:15:14,254
- Yes, ma'am.
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- 00:15:15,456 --> 00:15:17,129
- Just go use mine and Raleigh's.
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- 00:15:17,291 --> 00:15:20,966
- If Aibileen uses the guest bath,
- I'm sure she uses yours, too.
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- 00:15:21,129 --> 00:15:22,472
- She does not.
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- 00:15:23,381 --> 00:15:26,601
- Wouldn't you rather them
- take their business outside?
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- 00:15:28,344 --> 00:15:30,847
- Have you all seen the cover
- of Life this week?
- 227
- 00:15:31,013 --> 00:15:32,390
- Jackie's never looked more regal.
- 228
- 00:15:32,557 --> 00:15:35,356
- Tell Raleigh every penny he spends
- on a colored's bathroom
- 229
- 00:15:35,518 --> 00:15:38,362
- he'll get back in spades
- when y'all sell.
- 230
- 00:15:39,814 --> 00:15:43,910
- it's just plain dangerous. They carry
- different diseases than we do.
- 231
- 00:15:44,861 --> 00:15:45,862
- Pass.
- 232
- 00:15:46,028 --> 00:15:49,157
- That's why I've drafted
- the Home Health Sanitation Initiative.
- 233
- 00:15:49,323 --> 00:15:50,620
- The what?
- 234
- 00:15:50,783 --> 00:15:52,706
- A disease-preventative bill
- 235
- 00:15:52,869 --> 00:15:57,295
- that requires every white home to have a
- separate bathroom for the colored help.
- 236
- 00:15:58,166 --> 00:16:00,510
- It's been endorsed
- by the White Citizens' Council.
- 237
- 00:16:04,422 --> 00:16:07,517
- Maybe we should just build you
- a bathroom outside, Hilly.
- 238
- 00:16:07,675 --> 00:16:11,179
- You ought not to joke
- about the colored situation.
- 239
- 00:16:12,513 --> 00:16:15,187
- I'll do whatever it takes
- to protect our children.
- 240
- 00:16:17,059 --> 00:16:18,936
- Your lead, Elizabeth.
- 241
- 00:16:30,698 --> 00:16:32,200
- - Aibileen?
- - Yes, ma'am.
- 242
- 00:16:34,368 --> 00:16:37,292
- Do you think you'd be willing to help me
- with those Miss Myrna letters?
- 243
- 00:16:39,248 --> 00:16:41,876
- Miss Myrna get it wrong a lot of times.
- Be good to get it right.
- 244
- 00:16:44,712 --> 00:16:46,134
- Thank you, Aibileen.
- 245
- 00:16:48,549 --> 00:16:50,142
- All that talk in there today...
- 246
- 00:16:51,552 --> 00:16:52,804
- Hilly's talk?
- 247
- 00:16:53,513 --> 00:16:55,436
- I'm sorry you had to hear that.
- 248
- 00:17:04,649 --> 00:17:06,743
- Is that Preacher Green's sermon?
- 249
- 00:17:06,901 --> 00:17:08,995
- Yes, ma'am, it is.
- 250
- 00:17:09,153 --> 00:17:12,077
- That reminds me so much of my maid,
- Constantine.
- 251
- 00:17:13,366 --> 00:17:16,745
- I know Constantine.
- We're in church circle together.
- 252
- 00:17:17,453 --> 00:17:18,705
- Have you seen her lately?
- 253
- 00:17:19,997 --> 00:17:21,294
- No, ma'am.
- 254
- 00:17:21,457 --> 00:17:23,004
- Did you know that she had quit us?
- 255
- 00:17:23,167 --> 00:17:24,168
- Quit?
- 256
- 00:17:24,335 --> 00:17:27,635
- I got home from school a week ago,
- and my mama told me she had quit.
- 257
- 00:17:27,797 --> 00:17:31,597
- Back in March, she went to live with
- her daughter, Rachel. In Chicago.
- 258
- 00:17:32,718 --> 00:17:34,766
- Did you hear that?
- Do you have her phone number?
- 259
- 00:17:34,929 --> 00:17:37,023
- There you are, Skeeter.
- 260
- 00:17:39,141 --> 00:17:41,519
- Hilly wants you to put her initiative
- in the League newsletter.
- 261
- 00:17:41,686 --> 00:17:42,687
- OK.
- 262
- 00:17:44,272 --> 00:17:45,865
- I'll be back tomorrow, Aibileen,
- 263
- 00:17:46,023 --> 00:17:48,617
- to get started on those
- Miss Myrna letters.
- 264
- 00:17:48,776 --> 00:17:49,948
- Y'all make it quick.
- 265
- 00:17:50,111 --> 00:17:52,455
- Tomorrow is silver-polishing day. OK?
- 266
- 00:18:11,507 --> 00:18:12,884
- Hi, Jameso.
- 267
- 00:18:13,050 --> 00:18:14,302
- How you, Miss Eugenia?
- 268
- 00:18:16,387 --> 00:18:17,388
- Mama?
- 269
- 00:18:21,392 --> 00:18:22,814
- Mama.
- 270
- 00:18:23,436 --> 00:18:25,313
- Yoo-hoo.
- 271
- 00:18:35,948 --> 00:18:37,165
- Mama?
- 272
- 00:18:37,325 --> 00:18:38,542
- Back here, honey!
- 273
- 00:18:43,748 --> 00:18:45,466
- Is this a little too young?
- 274
- 00:18:46,250 --> 00:18:48,127
- That's a little too everything.
- 275
- 00:18:49,545 --> 00:18:51,218
- Oh, hell. You're right.
- 276
- 00:19:06,937 --> 00:19:07,984
- OK.
- 277
- 00:19:10,733 --> 00:19:12,076
- Much better.
- 278
- 00:19:13,069 --> 00:19:15,447
- Your daddy bought me this dress in '58.
- 279
- 00:19:16,197 --> 00:19:18,040
- Mama, I want to ask you
- about Constantine.
- 280
- 00:19:18,199 --> 00:19:20,918
- Right after Ole Miss won the Sugar Bowl.
- Come on. You try it on.
- 281
- 00:19:21,077 --> 00:19:22,203
- What really happened?
- 282
- 00:19:22,370 --> 00:19:25,294
- Skeeter, your mother is sick.
- She wants to see you in this dress.
- 283
- 00:19:25,456 --> 00:19:26,457
- Unzip me.
- 284
- 00:19:28,125 --> 00:19:29,172
- Come on.
- 285
- 00:19:31,545 --> 00:19:34,048
- Did I tell you Fanny Peatrow
- got engaged?
- 286
- 00:19:35,132 --> 00:19:36,930
- After she got that teller job,
- 287
- 00:19:37,093 --> 00:19:39,141
- her mother said she was swimming
- in proposals.
- 288
- 00:19:39,303 --> 00:19:41,180
- Good for fair Fanny Peatrow.
- 289
- 00:19:41,347 --> 00:19:44,601
- Eugenia, your eggs are dying.
- Would it kill you to go on a date?
- 290
- 00:19:45,351 --> 00:19:49,447
- Just show a little gumption.
- Careful now, careful.
- 291
- 00:19:49,605 --> 00:19:51,903
- Oh, now look at this.
- 292
- 00:19:52,566 --> 00:19:55,820
- This dress is just precious on you.
- 293
- 00:19:55,986 --> 00:19:59,991
- Just take it in a little here.
- Little there.
- 294
- 00:20:02,368 --> 00:20:05,121
- - Get your hair fixed.
- - I got a job today.
- 295
- 00:20:05,287 --> 00:20:06,288
- Where?
- 296
- 00:20:06,956 --> 00:20:09,050
- Writing for The Jackson Journal.
- 297
- 00:20:10,376 --> 00:20:12,674
- Great.
- 298
- 00:20:13,421 --> 00:20:15,594
- You can write my obituary!
- 299
- 00:20:15,756 --> 00:20:19,886
- "Charlotte Phelan, dead!
- Her daughter, still single."
- 300
- 00:20:20,052 --> 00:20:22,555
- Mother, would it really be so bad
- if I never met a husband?
- 301
- 00:20:22,722 --> 00:20:25,475
- Skeeter! Skeeter!
- 302
- 00:20:26,517 --> 00:20:27,939
- Skeeter!
- 303
- 00:20:32,648 --> 00:20:34,025
- I need to ask you something.
- 304
- 00:20:38,863 --> 00:20:42,788
- I read the other day about how
- some girls get unbalanced.
- 305
- 00:20:43,451 --> 00:20:44,794
- They start thinking these...
- 306
- 00:20:46,495 --> 00:20:48,463
- ...unnatural thoughts.
- 307
- 00:20:48,622 --> 00:20:49,965
- Are you...
- 308
- 00:20:51,751 --> 00:20:56,552
- Do you, uh... find men attractive?
- 309
- 00:20:57,131 --> 00:21:01,932
- Are you having unnatural thoughts
- about girls or women?
- 310
- 00:21:03,679 --> 00:21:04,771
- Oh, my God.
- 311
- 00:21:04,930 --> 00:21:09,606
- Because this article says there's
- a cure. A special root tea!
- 312
- 00:21:09,769 --> 00:21:15,151
- Mother, I want to be with girls as much
- as you want to be with Jameso.
- 313
- 00:21:15,316 --> 00:21:17,489
- - Eugenia!
- - Unless, of course, you do!
- 314
- 00:21:17,651 --> 00:21:19,028
- Oh!
- 315
- 00:21:21,155 --> 00:21:24,625
- Carlton's bringing Rebecca to dinner.
- Try to look presentable!
- 316
- 00:21:28,954 --> 00:21:31,082
- What the hell you know
- about cleaning a house, Skeeter?
- 317
- 00:21:31,248 --> 00:21:33,967
- It's a start, Carlton.
- 318
- 00:21:34,126 --> 00:21:37,596
- If you say so.
- I thought you wanted to write books.
- 319
- 00:21:37,755 --> 00:21:40,850
- Now, y'all leave Sister alone.
- 320
- 00:21:41,008 --> 00:21:43,887
- - I'm proud of you, sweetheart.
- - The irony of it all.
- 321
- 00:21:44,053 --> 00:21:46,351
- Giving advice on how to keep up a home
- when she doesn't even...
- 322
- 00:21:46,514 --> 00:21:49,939
- Oh, no, Pascagoula. You couldn't have
- known this, but I'm allergic to almonds.
- 323
- 00:21:50,100 --> 00:21:52,819
- Sorry, Miss Eugenia,
- I'll get you another one.
- 324
- 00:21:52,978 --> 00:21:55,527
- You know, last time I had an almond,
- I stopped liking men.
- 325
- 00:21:55,689 --> 00:21:57,236
- Oh, my Lord.
- 326
- 00:21:57,399 --> 00:22:01,154
- Oh, no, Rebecca, it's fine. There's
- a special root tea for that now.
- 327
- 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:02,663
- You have pushed it, young lady.
- 328
- 00:22:03,364 --> 00:22:06,493
- Daddy. What happened to Constantine?
- 329
- 00:22:06,659 --> 00:22:08,957
- Uh, well...
- 330
- 00:22:09,703 --> 00:22:13,048
- Constantine went to live in Chicago
- with her family.
- 331
- 00:22:13,207 --> 00:22:15,710
- People move on, Skeeter.
- 332
- 00:22:15,876 --> 00:22:18,254
- But I do wish that she'd
- stayed down here with us.
- 333
- 00:22:23,259 --> 00:22:24,977
- I don't believe you.
- 334
- 00:22:26,762 --> 00:22:29,185
- She would've written and told me.
- 335
- 00:22:38,524 --> 00:22:40,151
- Did you fire her?
- 336
- 00:22:40,818 --> 00:22:44,948
- We were just a job to her, honey.
- With them, it's all about money.
- 337
- 00:22:45,114 --> 00:22:48,618
- You'll understand that once you've
- hired help of your own.
- 338
- 00:22:49,410 --> 00:22:52,254
- - She raised me.
- - She did not!
- 339
- 00:22:52,413 --> 00:22:55,007
- She worked here for 29 years!
- 340
- 00:22:55,165 --> 00:22:57,384
- It was a colored thing
- and I put it behind me!
- 341
- 00:22:58,127 --> 00:23:01,927
- Excuse me a moment, Rebecca. My daughter
- has upset my cancerous ulcers.
- 342
- 00:23:48,677 --> 00:23:51,100
- What you doing hiding out here, girl?
- 343
- 00:23:52,765 --> 00:23:56,144
- I couldn't tell Mama I didn't
- get asked to the dance.
- 344
- 00:23:56,310 --> 00:23:57,436
- It's all right.
- 345
- 00:23:58,646 --> 00:24:02,150
- Some things we just got to
- keep to ourselves, right?
- 346
- 00:24:03,233 --> 00:24:05,076
- All the boys say I'm ugly.
- 347
- 00:24:06,946 --> 00:24:11,042
- Mama was third runner-up in
- the Miss South Carolina pageant.
- 348
- 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,875
- I wish you'd quit
- feeling sorry for yourself.
- 349
- 00:24:15,037 --> 00:24:17,165
- Now, that's ugly.
- 350
- 00:24:18,207 --> 00:24:21,757
- Ugly is something that
- goes up inside you.
- 351
- 00:24:21,919 --> 00:24:25,389
- It's mean and hurtful, like them boys.
- 352
- 00:24:26,715 --> 00:24:28,513
- Now you're not one of them, is you?
- 353
- 00:24:29,551 --> 00:24:31,474
- I didn't think so, honey.
- 354
- 00:24:36,684 --> 00:24:37,685
- Every day...
- 355
- 00:24:39,687 --> 00:24:42,486
- Every day you're not
- dead in the ground,
- 356
- 00:24:42,648 --> 00:24:47,245
- when you wake up in the morning, you're
- gonna have to make some decisions.
- 357
- 00:24:48,696 --> 00:24:51,119
- Got to ask yourself this question:
- 358
- 00:24:51,824 --> 00:24:53,417
- "Am I gonna believe
- 359
- 00:24:53,575 --> 00:24:58,251
- all them bad things them fools
- say about me today?"
- 360
- 00:25:00,207 --> 00:25:01,299
- You hear me?
- 361
- 00:25:01,458 --> 00:25:04,587
- "Am I gonna believe all them bad things
- 362
- 00:25:04,753 --> 00:25:07,256
- them fools say about me today'?"
- 363
- 00:25:10,134 --> 00:25:11,260
- All right?
- 364
- 00:25:14,430 --> 00:25:18,276
- As for your mama,
- she didn't pick her life.
- 365
- 00:25:19,727 --> 00:25:21,070
- It picked her.
- 366
- 00:25:23,856 --> 00:25:24,982
- But you...
- 367
- 00:25:27,735 --> 00:25:31,410
- ...you're gonna do
- something big with yours.
- 368
- 00:25:32,531 --> 00:25:34,124
- You wait and see.
- 369
- 00:25:36,493 --> 00:25:39,463
- Come on, go home with me
- till the dance over. Come on.
- 370
- 00:26:00,809 --> 00:26:03,779
- Miss Stein, you said in your letter
- to write about what disturbs me,
- 371
- 00:26:03,937 --> 00:26:05,234
- particularly if it bothers no one else.
- 372
- 00:26:05,397 --> 00:26:06,398
- Come on.
- 373
- 00:26:06,565 --> 00:26:08,363
- And I understand that now.
- 374
- 00:26:09,777 --> 00:26:10,949
- Continue.
- 375
- 00:26:12,029 --> 00:26:14,748
- I'd like to write something
- from the point of view of the help.
- 376
- 00:26:16,283 --> 00:26:18,832
- These colored women
- raise white children,
- 377
- 00:26:18,994 --> 00:26:22,294
- and in 20 years,
- those children become the boss.
- 378
- 00:26:22,456 --> 00:26:25,175
- We love them and they love us,
- 379
- 00:26:25,334 --> 00:26:27,632
- but they can't even use the toilets
- in our houses.
- 380
- 00:26:27,795 --> 00:26:29,388
- Don't you find that ironic, Miss Stein?
- 381
- 00:26:29,546 --> 00:26:30,547
- I'm listening.
- 382
- 00:26:32,091 --> 00:26:34,685
- Margaret Mitchell glorified
- the mammy figure,
- 383
- 00:26:34,843 --> 00:26:36,516
- who dedicates her whole life
- 384
- 00:26:36,678 --> 00:26:37,725
- to a white family.
- 385
- 00:26:37,888 --> 00:26:41,267
- But nobody ever asked Mammy
- how she felt about it.
- 386
- 00:26:41,433 --> 00:26:44,186
- So, a side to this never before heard?
- 387
- 00:26:44,353 --> 00:26:46,276
- Yes.
- 388
- 00:26:46,438 --> 00:26:49,282
- 'Cause nobody ever really
- talks about it down here.
- 389
- 00:26:52,111 --> 00:26:53,909
- Skeeter, who are you
- talking to in there?
- 390
- 00:26:54,947 --> 00:26:56,290
- Go away!
- 391
- 00:26:59,910 --> 00:27:02,880
- - Who was that?
- - My mother.
- 392
- 00:27:03,038 --> 00:27:04,585
- Look.
- 393
- 00:27:04,748 --> 00:27:08,218
- No maid in her right mind is ever gonna
- tell you the truth.
- 394
- 00:27:08,377 --> 00:27:11,927
- That's a hell of a risk to take in
- a place like Jackson, Mississippi.
- 395
- 00:27:12,089 --> 00:27:13,466
- I already have a maid.
- 396
- 00:27:15,467 --> 00:27:18,971
- Really? A Negro maid has already agreed
- to speak with you?
- 397
- 00:27:19,805 --> 00:27:21,352
- Yes, ma'am.
- 398
- 00:27:25,185 --> 00:27:28,189
- Well... I guess I can read
- what you come up with.
- 399
- 00:27:28,355 --> 00:27:30,528
- The book biz could use
- a little rattling.
- 400
- 00:27:30,691 --> 00:27:32,068
- Thank you, Miss Stein.
- 401
- 00:27:32,234 --> 00:27:33,986
- Hey, hey, hey, all I'm saying
- 402
- 00:27:34,153 --> 00:27:37,123
- is that I'll let you know
- if it's even worth pursuing.
- 403
- 00:27:37,281 --> 00:27:40,706
- And for God's sake, you're
- a 23-year-old educated woman.
- 404
- 00:27:40,868 --> 00:27:43,041
- Go get yourself an apartment.
- 405
- 00:27:47,374 --> 00:27:49,047
- "Dear Miss Myrna:
- 406
- 00:27:50,002 --> 00:27:52,676
- When I'm chopping onions, how do I
- keep tears out of my eyes?"
- 407
- 00:27:52,838 --> 00:27:56,433
- Shoot, that's easy. You tell
- her hold a matchstick between her teeth.
- 408
- 00:27:57,885 --> 00:27:59,432
- Is it lit?
- 409
- 00:27:59,595 --> 00:28:01,222
- No, ma'am.
- 410
- 00:28:03,557 --> 00:28:06,606
- Miss Leefolt said
- you could start right away.
- 411
- 00:28:06,768 --> 00:28:11,740
- Build it just like the bathroom
- at my house. Let's see.
- 412
- 00:28:11,899 --> 00:28:15,529
- - Right there. That will be nice.
- - Yes, ma'am.
- 413
- 00:28:21,033 --> 00:28:23,377
- My goodness, we got to run back
- to the car. Come on.
- 414
- 00:28:23,911 --> 00:28:25,288
- Bye, Skeeter!
- 415
- 00:28:28,874 --> 00:28:30,467
- Aibileen.
- 416
- 00:28:30,626 --> 00:28:34,256
- There's something else I want to
- write about. I would need your help.
- 417
- 00:28:37,549 --> 00:28:41,520
- I want to interview you about
- what it's like to work as a maid.
- 418
- 00:28:41,678 --> 00:28:44,978
- I'd like to do a book of interviews
- about working for white families.
- 419
- 00:28:45,807 --> 00:28:49,528
- And we could show what it's like
- to work for, say, Elizabeth?
- 420
- 00:28:49,686 --> 00:28:52,940
- You know what Miss Leefolt do to me if
- she knew I was telling stories on her?
- 421
- 00:28:53,106 --> 00:28:56,235
- I was thinking that we wouldn't
- have to tell her.
- 422
- 00:28:56,401 --> 00:28:59,280
- The other maids would have
- to keep it a secret, too.
- 423
- 00:28:59,446 --> 00:29:00,789
- Other maids?
- 424
- 00:29:02,241 --> 00:29:04,619
- I was hoping to get four or five.
- 425
- 00:29:06,495 --> 00:29:09,294
- To show what it's really like
- in Jackson.
- 426
- 00:29:12,417 --> 00:29:17,298
- Show what y'all get paid,
- and the babies and the bathrooms.
- 427
- 00:29:17,464 --> 00:29:18,681
- The good and the bad.
- 428
- 00:29:19,841 --> 00:29:22,219
- I bought you this damn house.
- I put up with your new clothes
- 429
- 00:29:22,386 --> 00:29:24,935
- and trips to New Orleans,
- but this takes the goddamn cake.
- 430
- 00:29:25,097 --> 00:29:26,314
- Hilly spoke to the surgeon general,
- 431
- 00:29:26,473 --> 00:29:29,192
- and she also said it'll add value
- to our home.
- 432
- 00:29:29,351 --> 00:29:32,195
- I guess Mae Mobley can go to college
- in that damn bathroom!
- 433
- 00:29:32,354 --> 00:29:33,606
- Hilly's covering the cost and said
- 434
- 00:29:33,772 --> 00:29:35,615
- you could just do William's taxes
- to pay her back.
- 435
- 00:29:35,774 --> 00:29:37,822
- We don't take orders
- from the Holbrooks.
- 436
- 00:29:40,737 --> 00:29:42,614
- Skeeter, how you doing?
- 437
- 00:29:44,074 --> 00:29:45,075
- Fine.
- 438
- 00:29:49,538 --> 00:29:51,006
- Fix me a sandwich, Aibileen.
- 439
- 00:29:54,334 --> 00:29:56,587
- Aibileen, Mae Mobley's
- crying her eyes out.
- 440
- 00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:02,426
- Skeeter.
- 441
- 00:30:03,051 --> 00:30:05,930
- I'm sorry, but I think it's best
- if you leave now.
- 442
- 00:30:06,096 --> 00:30:07,894
- Oh, sure, sure.
- 443
- 00:30:08,056 --> 00:30:11,811
- And this Miss Myrna thing isn't going
- to work out with Aibileen.
- 444
- 00:30:13,020 --> 00:30:14,738
- I'm sorry.
- 445
- 00:30:25,324 --> 00:30:28,874
- You're making it hotter,
- flapping your arms like that, Minny.
- 446
- 00:30:38,170 --> 00:30:40,764
- Look how big the waves are, Minny.
- 447
- 00:30:42,341 --> 00:30:45,595
- Let's go to the beach.
- Run, get Mr. Walters!
- 448
- 00:30:45,761 --> 00:30:47,479
- He loves riding these waves!
- 449
- 00:30:47,637 --> 00:30:49,935
- You know we went to Biloxi
- on our honeymoon?
- 450
- 00:30:50,098 --> 00:30:51,566
- Yes, ma'am.
- 451
- 00:30:52,476 --> 00:30:55,400
- Are we in Biloxi, Minny?
- 452
- 00:30:56,563 --> 00:30:59,567
- No, ma'am. We ain't.
- 453
- 00:31:02,944 --> 00:31:06,915
- Why don't you sit down here for a spell.
- 454
- 00:31:08,116 --> 00:31:12,872
- And then me and you will go on down
- to the beach in a little while.
- 455
- 00:31:13,038 --> 00:31:14,381
- How about that?
- 456
- 00:31:26,843 --> 00:31:28,265
- Uh...
- 457
- 00:31:29,179 --> 00:31:30,180
- Miss Hilly?
- 458
- 00:31:30,347 --> 00:31:31,940
- Mm-hm?
- 459
- 00:31:34,476 --> 00:31:35,773
- Never mind.
- 460
- 00:31:35,936 --> 00:31:38,815
- You go on ahead and use
- the inside bath, Minny, it's all right.
- 461
- 00:31:38,980 --> 00:31:41,904
- Oh, for crying out loud,
- it's just a little rain.
- 462
- 00:31:42,818 --> 00:31:45,617
- She can go on up and get an umbrella
- from William's study.
- 463
- 00:31:46,279 --> 00:31:50,034
- I believe she was working for me
- before you dragged us both here.
- 464
- 00:31:53,620 --> 00:31:55,793
- Daddy ruined you.
- 465
- 00:31:59,251 --> 00:32:01,128
- I'm just gonna get your tea.
- 466
- 00:32:30,115 --> 00:32:31,332
- Minny?
- 467
- 00:32:32,701 --> 00:32:34,374
- Minny, are you in there?
- 468
- 00:32:36,413 --> 00:32:37,756
- Yes, ma'am.
- 469
- 00:32:38,582 --> 00:32:40,835
- And just what are you doing?
- 470
- 00:32:48,717 --> 00:32:50,390
- Get off my toilet!
- 471
- 00:32:55,599 --> 00:32:58,193
- You are fired, Minny Jackson!
- 472
- 00:33:09,988 --> 00:33:11,740
- Go on!
- 473
- 00:33:21,249 --> 00:33:23,923
- Eighteen people
- died in Jackson that day.
- 474
- 00:33:25,212 --> 00:33:27,180
- Ten white and eight black.
- 475
- 00:33:31,259 --> 00:33:35,639
- God don't pay no mind to color once
- He decide to set a tornado loose.
- 476
- 00:33:35,805 --> 00:33:38,729
- Aibee's here, honey.
- 477
- 00:33:38,892 --> 00:33:40,439
- Aibee's here.
- 478
- 00:34:02,249 --> 00:34:05,423
- Hurry, Aibileen! Mae Mobley
- is up, and I'm off to the doctor!
- 479
- 00:34:10,340 --> 00:34:14,561
- That's Aibee's bathroom, Mama.
- Hey, Aibee!
- 480
- 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,188
- No, no, no, honey.
- Promise me you won't go in there, OK?
- 481
- 00:34:17,347 --> 00:34:18,644
- Yes, ma'am.
- 482
- 00:34:19,182 --> 00:34:20,684
- I'm right here, Baby Girl.
- 483
- 00:34:22,727 --> 00:34:25,105
- Isn't it so nice
- to have your own, Aibileen?
- 484
- 00:34:25,272 --> 00:34:26,398
- Yes, ma'am.
- 485
- 00:34:41,830 --> 00:34:45,425
- You're my real mama, Aibee.
- 486
- 00:35:10,942 --> 00:35:13,286
- - Is that Minny?
- - Minny.
- 487
- 00:35:14,029 --> 00:35:15,872
- Hey, Aibileen!
- 488
- 00:35:16,573 --> 00:35:17,574
- Hey, Minny!
- 489
- 00:35:17,741 --> 00:35:19,584
- Mm-hmm.
- 490
- 00:35:19,743 --> 00:35:20,915
- Where you headed?
- 491
- 00:35:22,287 --> 00:35:25,336
- I got some business to tend to,
- so y'all just mind your own.
- 492
- 00:35:26,499 --> 00:35:27,967
- All right, then. Well, bye!
- 493
- 00:35:28,126 --> 00:35:29,924
- Bye!
- 494
- 00:35:30,086 --> 00:35:32,760
- Now is she mad at me 'cause I got
- that job at Miss Hilly's?
- 495
- 00:35:32,922 --> 00:35:35,596
- Don't worry about her.
- She always mad about something.
- 496
- 00:35:37,636 --> 00:35:39,058
- Aibileen.
- 497
- 00:35:42,641 --> 00:35:44,643
- Yes, ma'am. Everything OK?
- 498
- 00:35:44,809 --> 00:35:46,937
- Yeah, I just wanted to talk to you.
- 499
- 00:35:47,896 --> 00:35:50,149
- You got some more
- Miss Myrna questions for me?
- 500
- 00:35:50,315 --> 00:35:51,988
- Oh, no, I just wanted to talk about...
- 501
- 00:35:55,862 --> 00:35:58,285
- We never finished our conversation
- at Elizabeth's.
- 502
- 00:35:58,448 --> 00:36:00,667
- About that book I want to write?
- 503
- 00:36:15,548 --> 00:36:18,392
- I'd really like
- to interview you, Aibileen.
- 504
- 00:36:19,386 --> 00:36:20,683
- I know it's scary.
- 505
- 00:36:25,016 --> 00:36:27,644
- They set my cousin
- Shinelle's car on fire,
- 506
- 00:36:27,811 --> 00:36:29,859
- just 'cause she went down
- to the voting station.
- 507
- 00:36:30,021 --> 00:36:32,274
- A book like this has never
- been written before.
- 508
- 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,113
- 'Cause there's a reason.
- 509
- 00:36:34,275 --> 00:36:37,119
- I do this with you, I might as well
- burn my own house down.
- 510
- 00:36:37,278 --> 00:36:38,575
- I promise we'll be careful.
- 511
- 00:36:38,738 --> 00:36:41,207
- This already ain't careful,
- Miss Skeeter!
- 512
- 00:36:46,454 --> 00:36:49,173
- You not knowing that is what's
- scaring me the most.
- 513
- 00:36:49,332 --> 00:36:51,426
- Scare me more than Jim Crow.
- 514
- 00:36:54,295 --> 00:36:55,467
- All right.
- 515
- 00:36:56,256 --> 00:36:57,883
- Here's my phone number.
- 516
- 00:37:01,511 --> 00:37:04,811
- - My car's here. I could take you home.
- - No, ma'am.
- 517
- 00:37:16,359 --> 00:37:20,159
- "No person shall
- require any white female
- 518
- 00:37:20,321 --> 00:37:24,747
- to nurse in wards or rooms
- in which Negro men are placed.
- 519
- 00:37:26,745 --> 00:37:32,093
- Books shall not be interchangeable
- between the white and colored schools,
- 520
- 00:37:33,293 --> 00:37:37,298
- but shall continue to be used
- by the race first using them.
- 521
- 00:37:39,632 --> 00:37:44,934
- No colored barber shall serve as
- a barber to white women or girls.
- 522
- 00:37:46,890 --> 00:37:49,234
- Any person printing, publishing
- 523
- 00:37:49,392 --> 00:37:51,235
- or circulating written matter
- 524
- 00:37:51,394 --> 00:37:56,651
- urging for public acceptance or social
- equality between whites and Negroes
- 525
- 00:37:56,816 --> 00:37:58,944
- is subject to imprisonment. "
- 526
- 00:38:00,153 --> 00:38:01,200
- Hello?
- 527
- 00:38:01,362 --> 00:38:04,536
- Aibileen, I done went and did it now.
- 528
- 00:38:05,575 --> 00:38:07,623
- I went to Miss Hilly's house
- this afternoon.
- 529
- 00:38:08,036 --> 00:38:09,288
- Why Minny?
- 530
- 00:38:09,454 --> 00:38:12,754
- She done told every white woman
- in town I'm a thief
- 531
- 00:38:12,916 --> 00:38:15,385
- Said I stole a candelabra.
- 532
- 00:38:17,545 --> 00:38:19,172
- But I got her back.
- 533
- 00:38:19,339 --> 00:38:21,012
- What you did?
- 534
- 00:38:22,342 --> 00:38:23,685
- I can't tell you.
- 535
- 00:38:25,053 --> 00:38:27,055
- I ain 't telling nobody.
- 536
- 00:38:31,434 --> 00:38:35,280
- I done something terrible awful
- to that woman,
- 537
- 00:38:35,438 --> 00:38:38,032
- and now she know what I done.
- 538
- 00:38:38,191 --> 00:38:39,488
- Sorry.
- 539
- 00:38:43,780 --> 00:38:44,781
- Minny.
- 540
- 00:38:44,948 --> 00:38:46,950
- She got what she deserved, Aibileen.
- 541
- 00:38:48,284 --> 00:38:50,912
- But now I ain't gonna never get
- no job again.
- 542
- 00:38:52,872 --> 00:38:55,170
- Oh, Lord, Leroy gonna kill me.
- 543
- 00:39:01,381 --> 00:39:02,382
- Leroy?
- 544
- 00:39:04,717 --> 00:39:06,469
- What you done did now, Minny?
- 545
- 00:39:08,054 --> 00:39:10,398
- - Get off that phone, woman!
- - Leroy, please!
- 546
- 00:39:10,557 --> 00:39:13,106
- Minny? Minny!
- 547
- 00:39:13,268 --> 00:39:15,487
- Please! Please!
- 548
- 00:39:15,645 --> 00:39:16,771
- Come here!
- 549
- 00:39:25,071 --> 00:39:28,996
- Please open your Bibles to Exodus.
- 550
- 00:39:29,659 --> 00:39:32,412
- Chapter four, verse ten.
- 551
- 00:39:32,912 --> 00:39:37,463
- God, having asked Moses
- to free the Israelites...
- 552
- 00:39:39,252 --> 00:39:40,845
- ...Moses answered:
- 553
- 00:39:42,213 --> 00:39:46,559
- "Oh, my Lord. I am not eloquent.
- 554
- 00:39:47,427 --> 00:39:51,682
- I am slow of speech and slow of tongue."
- 555
- 00:39:54,225 --> 00:39:58,605
- See, courage isn't just
- about being brave.
- 556
- 00:39:58,771 --> 00:39:59,818
- Amen!
- 557
- 00:39:59,981 --> 00:40:02,200
- Courage is daring to do what is right
- 558
- 00:40:02,442 --> 00:40:05,286
- in spite of the weakness of our flesh.
- 559
- 00:40:05,445 --> 00:40:07,823
- And God tells us,
- 560
- 00:40:08,531 --> 00:40:11,284
- commands us, compels us,
- 561
- 00:40:11,451 --> 00:40:13,704
- -to love. Amen?
- - Amen.
- 562
- 00:40:16,205 --> 00:40:17,582
- See, love,
- 563
- 00:40:17,749 --> 00:40:21,379
- as exemplified
- by our Lord Jesus Christ,
- 564
- 00:40:21,544 --> 00:40:25,390
- is to be prepared to put yourself
- in harm's way
- 565
- 00:40:25,548 --> 00:40:27,516
- - for your fellow man.
- 566
- 00:40:27,675 --> 00:40:29,973
- And by your fellow man,
- I mean your brother,
- 567
- 00:40:30,345 --> 00:40:34,976
- your sister, your neighbor,
- your friend and your enemy.
- 568
- 00:40:35,141 --> 00:40:39,146
- If you can love your enemy,
- you already have the victory.
- 569
- 00:40:39,312 --> 00:40:41,406
- Let's stand. All right.
- 570
- 00:41:03,002 --> 00:41:04,299
- Quick. Come quick.
- 571
- 00:41:04,462 --> 00:41:07,716
- I parked way up on State Street and
- caught a cab here, like you asked.
- 572
- 00:41:07,882 --> 00:41:09,384
- Got dropped two streets over?
- 573
- 00:41:09,550 --> 00:41:11,018
- Mm-hm.
- 574
- 00:41:25,108 --> 00:41:28,453
- I know now that it's against the law,
- what we're doing.
- 575
- 00:41:35,994 --> 00:41:37,792
- I've never seen you
- out of uniform before.
- 576
- 00:41:39,455 --> 00:41:41,253
- You look really nice.
- 577
- 00:41:42,375 --> 00:41:43,592
- Thank you.
- 578
- 00:42:01,894 --> 00:42:04,738
- I ain't never had no white person
- in my house before.
- 579
- 00:42:06,858 --> 00:42:08,360
- Miss Skeeter...
- 580
- 00:42:11,112 --> 00:42:15,788
- ...what if you don't like what I
- got to say... about white people?
- 581
- 00:42:17,410 --> 00:42:19,128
- This isn't about me.
- 582
- 00:42:20,788 --> 00:42:22,381
- It doesn't matter how I feel.
- 583
- 00:42:30,757 --> 00:42:33,931
- You gonna have to change my name.
- Mine, Miss Leefolt's. Everybody.
- 584
- 00:42:35,428 --> 00:42:37,476
- Do you have other maids
- that are interested?
- 585
- 00:42:39,390 --> 00:42:41,392
- That gonna be hard.
- 586
- 00:42:41,559 --> 00:42:43,232
- What about Minny?
- 587
- 00:42:43,394 --> 00:42:44,987
- Minny got her some stories,
- sure enough,
- 588
- 00:42:45,146 --> 00:42:48,992
- but she ain't real keen on talking
- to white peoples right now.
- 589
- 00:42:52,153 --> 00:42:54,747
- What does it feel like
- to raise a white child
- 590
- 00:42:54,906 --> 00:42:57,785
- when your own child's at home being
- looked after by somebody else?
- 591
- 00:43:00,620 --> 00:43:02,167
- It feel...
- 592
- 00:43:14,550 --> 00:43:15,767
- Is that your son?
- 593
- 00:43:20,932 --> 00:43:22,809
- Yes, ma'am.
- 594
- 00:43:22,975 --> 00:43:25,148
- Can we move on to the next question?
- 595
- 00:43:25,311 --> 00:43:28,190
- You don't have to call me ma'am.
- 596
- 00:43:28,773 --> 00:43:30,775
- Not here.
- 597
- 00:43:36,739 --> 00:43:37,786
- Uh...
- 598
- 00:43:37,949 --> 00:43:40,372
- Do you want to talk about the bathroom?
- 599
- 00:43:41,202 --> 00:43:44,172
- Or anything about Miss Leefolt?
- 600
- 00:43:45,164 --> 00:43:49,795
- How she pays you, or has she ever
- yelled at you in front of Mae Mobley?
- 601
- 00:43:54,215 --> 00:43:57,560
- I thought I might write my stories down
- and read them to you.
- 602
- 00:43:58,261 --> 00:44:00,355
- Ain't no different than writing down
- my prayers.
- 603
- 00:44:04,308 --> 00:44:05,730
- OK.
- 604
- 00:44:07,270 --> 00:44:08,317
- Sure.
- 605
- 00:44:15,695 --> 00:44:18,164
- I don't say my prayers out loud.
- 606
- 00:44:18,322 --> 00:44:21,496
- I can get my point across
- a lot better writing them down.
- 607
- 00:44:21,659 --> 00:44:26,711
- I write an hour,
- sometimes two, every night.
- 608
- 00:44:26,873 --> 00:44:31,549
- And after my prayers last night,
- I got some stories down, too.
- 609
- 00:44:34,839 --> 00:44:36,136
- Go ahead.
- 610
- 00:44:45,766 --> 00:44:48,861
- "My first white baby to ever look after
- 611
- 00:44:49,020 --> 00:44:52,240
- was named Alton Carrington Speers.
- 612
- 00:44:52,398 --> 00:44:56,448
- It was 1925, and I had just turned 14.
- 613
- 00:44:57,111 --> 00:45:00,160
- I dropped out of school
- to help Mama with the bills.
- 614
- 00:45:00,323 --> 00:45:02,917
- Alton's mama died of lung disease."
- 615
- 00:45:06,537 --> 00:45:10,462
- I loved that baby. And he loved me.
- 616
- 00:45:12,919 --> 00:45:16,014
- That's when I learned I could make
- children feel proud of theyself.
- 617
- 00:45:18,716 --> 00:45:22,186
- Alton used to always be asking me
- how come I was black.
- 618
- 00:45:22,345 --> 00:45:24,393
- Just ate him up.
- 619
- 00:45:24,555 --> 00:45:28,435
- And one time, I told him it was because
- I drank too much coffee.
- 620
- 00:45:32,688 --> 00:45:35,316
- You should have seen his face.
- 621
- 00:45:47,703 --> 00:45:50,297
- This was just so great.
- 622
- 00:45:52,291 --> 00:45:55,591
- I can't tell you how much I appreciate
- your doing this with me.
- 623
- 00:45:56,837 --> 00:45:58,555
- What changed your mind?
- 624
- 00:46:00,258 --> 00:46:01,384
- God.
- 625
- 00:46:03,552 --> 00:46:05,520
- And Miss Hilly Holbrook.
- 626
- 00:46:18,734 --> 00:46:23,410
- Miss Hilly, I would like to ask you
- and Mr. William something.
- 627
- 00:46:26,867 --> 00:46:30,917
- My twin boys graduated from high school,
- both on the honor roll.
- 628
- 00:46:31,580 --> 00:46:35,050
- Me and my husband, we been saving
- for years to send them to Tougaloo.
- 629
- 00:46:37,044 --> 00:46:40,173
- We're short about $75
- on one of the tuitions.
- 630
- 00:46:42,216 --> 00:46:47,188
- Whoo! I am late. I gotta get going.
- 631
- 00:46:50,141 --> 00:46:51,358
- See you tonight, honey.
- 632
- 00:46:51,517 --> 00:46:52,564
- OK.
- 633
- 00:46:54,979 --> 00:46:56,105
- Go on.
- 634
- 00:46:59,608 --> 00:47:02,487
- Well, now we're...
- 635
- 00:47:02,653 --> 00:47:05,372
- ...faced with having to choose
- 636
- 00:47:05,531 --> 00:47:08,159
- which son can go if we don't
- come up with the money.
- 637
- 00:47:09,368 --> 00:47:11,996
- Would you consider giving us a loan?
- 638
- 00:47:12,747 --> 00:47:17,969
- I'd work every day for free
- till it was paid off.
- 639
- 00:47:18,127 --> 00:47:22,132
- That's not working for free.
- That's paying off a debt.
- 640
- 00:47:24,633 --> 00:47:26,135
- Yes, ma'am.
- 641
- 00:47:30,056 --> 00:47:34,311
- As a Christian, I'm doing you a favor.
- 642
- 00:47:36,062 --> 00:47:40,283
- See, God don't give charity to those
- who are well and able.
- 643
- 00:47:41,442 --> 00:47:45,242
- You need to come up with this money
- on your own. OK?
- 644
- 00:47:47,448 --> 00:47:49,496
- Yes, ma'am.
- 645
- 00:47:49,658 --> 00:47:51,126
- You'll thank me one day.
- 646
- 00:47:53,662 --> 00:47:57,007
- You cooking white food,
- you taste it with a different spoon.
- 647
- 00:47:57,750 --> 00:47:59,878
- If they see you put the tasting spoon
- back in the pot,
- 648
- 00:48:00,044 --> 00:48:01,387
- might as well throw it all out.
- 649
- 00:48:01,545 --> 00:48:02,717
- Spoon, too.
- 650
- 00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:06,100
- And you use the same cup, same fork,
- same plate every day.
- 651
- 00:48:06,258 --> 00:48:07,851
- And you put it up in the cabinet.
- 652
- 00:48:08,010 --> 00:48:10,729
- You tell that white woman that's where
- you're gonna keep it from now on out.
- 653
- 00:48:10,888 --> 00:48:12,686
- Don't do it and see what happens.
- 654
- 00:48:12,848 --> 00:48:14,521
- Morning, ladies.
- 655
- 00:48:14,683 --> 00:48:16,356
- When you're sewing white folks coffee,
- 656
- 00:48:16,519 --> 00:48:17,816
- set it down in front of them.
- 657
- 00:48:17,978 --> 00:48:20,652
- Don't hand it to them,
- 'cause your hands can't touch.
- 658
- 00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,159
- And don't hit on they children.
- 659
- 00:48:24,318 --> 00:48:26,867
- White folks like to do
- they own spanking.
- 660
- 00:48:28,155 --> 00:48:30,658
- And last thing. Come here.
- 661
- 00:48:31,951 --> 00:48:33,168
- Look at me.
- 662
- 00:48:33,327 --> 00:48:35,671
- No Sass-mouthing.
- 663
- 00:48:37,790 --> 00:48:40,168
- No Sass-mouthing.
- 664
- 00:48:40,334 --> 00:48:42,052
- I mean it.
- 665
- 00:48:47,258 --> 00:48:48,601
- Give your mama a kiss.
- 666
- 00:48:51,262 --> 00:48:55,768
- Leroy had made Sugar quit
- school to help him with the bills.
- 667
- 00:48:59,645 --> 00:49:03,070
- And every day Minny
- went without a job,
- 668
- 00:49:03,232 --> 00:49:05,985
- might have been a day Leroy
- took her from our world.
- 669
- 00:49:10,448 --> 00:49:12,200
- Good morning, everybody.
- 670
- 00:49:19,081 --> 00:49:20,378
- But I knew.
- 671
- 00:49:20,541 --> 00:49:24,842
- I knew the only white lady Miss Hilly
- hadn't gotten to with her lies.
- 672
- 00:49:33,220 --> 00:49:34,938
- Hey!
- 673
- 00:49:35,097 --> 00:49:38,146
- Come on!
- 674
- 00:49:38,309 --> 00:49:42,780
- No sass-mouthing, Minny Jackson.
- No Sass-mouthing.
- 675
- 00:49:44,690 --> 00:49:47,318
- Aibileen said you'd be on time.
- 676
- 00:49:51,572 --> 00:49:53,449
- I'm Celia Rae Foote.
- 677
- 00:49:53,616 --> 00:49:55,289
- I'm Minny Jackson.
- 678
- 00:49:56,911 --> 00:49:59,960
- You, uh... cooking something?
- 679
- 00:50:01,165 --> 00:50:04,590
- One of those upside-down cakes
- from a magazine.
- 680
- 00:50:04,752 --> 00:50:08,507
- It ain't working out too good.
- Come on, let's get you a cold Coca-Cola.
- 681
- 00:50:11,217 --> 00:50:12,218
- Come on.
- 682
- 00:50:14,345 --> 00:50:16,393
- This here is the kitchen.
- 683
- 00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:19,938
- What in the hell?
- 684
- 00:50:23,312 --> 00:50:25,735
- I guess I got some learning to do.
- 685
- 00:50:26,482 --> 00:50:29,531
- You sure do.
- 686
- 00:50:29,693 --> 00:50:32,742
- Johnny's grandmama left him this house
- when she died.
- 687
- 00:50:32,905 --> 00:50:35,909
- And then Johnny's mama
- wouldn't let me change a thing.
- 688
- 00:50:36,075 --> 00:50:38,077
- But if I had it my way,
- 689
- 00:50:38,244 --> 00:50:43,125
- this place would be wall-to-wall
- white carpet with gold trim.
- 690
- 00:50:43,290 --> 00:50:45,463
- None of this old stuff.
- 691
- 00:50:45,626 --> 00:50:47,924
- The main house has
- five beds and baths,
- 692
- 00:50:48,087 --> 00:50:52,388
- and then the pool house has
- two more beds and baths.
- 693
- 00:50:52,550 --> 00:50:54,723
- When y'all gonna start
- having some children,
- 694
- 00:50:54,885 --> 00:50:56,979
- filling up all these empty beds?
- 695
- 00:50:59,139 --> 00:51:01,767
- - I'm pregnant now.
- - Oh.
- 696
- 00:51:01,934 --> 00:51:05,438
- Gonna be eating for two.
- That's double the cooking.
- 697
- 00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:09,359
- I know. It's an awful lotto do.
- 698
- 00:51:10,401 --> 00:51:13,496
- Five other maids have
- already turned me down.
- 699
- 00:51:14,488 --> 00:51:17,116
- Let me at least get you some bus money.
- 700
- 00:51:17,283 --> 00:51:20,708
- Now, uh... when did you hear me say
- I don't want to clean this house?
- 701
- 00:51:21,954 --> 00:51:25,208
- Wait. So you'll do it?
- 702
- 00:51:31,755 --> 00:51:33,473
- Ooh. No hugging. No hugging.
- 703
- 00:51:34,633 --> 00:51:38,979
- I'm sorry. This is the first time
- I've hired a maid.
- 704
- 00:51:39,888 --> 00:51:41,435
- Come on.
- 705
- 00:51:47,688 --> 00:51:51,158
- - You hungry?
- - No, ma'am. Hold on a minute.
- 706
- 00:51:51,317 --> 00:51:53,365
- We gots to talk about
- some things first.
- 707
- 00:51:55,529 --> 00:51:57,406
- Oh.
- 708
- 00:51:57,573 --> 00:51:59,200
- I work Sunday through Friday.
- 709
- 00:51:59,366 --> 00:52:02,370
- No, you can't work at all
- on the weekends.
- 710
- 00:52:02,536 --> 00:52:05,915
- OK. What time you want me here?
- 711
- 00:52:07,082 --> 00:52:10,928
- After 9:00, and you gotta leave
- before 4:00.
- 712
- 00:52:12,087 --> 00:52:13,259
- OK.
- 713
- 00:52:13,422 --> 00:52:15,140
- Now...
- 714
- 00:52:15,299 --> 00:52:16,892
- What your husband say you can pay?
- 715
- 00:52:18,552 --> 00:52:20,646
- Johnny doesn't know
- I'm bringing in help.
- 716
- 00:52:20,804 --> 00:52:22,898
- And what Mr. Johnny gonna do
- when he come home
- 717
- 00:52:23,057 --> 00:52:25,230
- and find a colored woman in his house?
- 718
- 00:52:25,392 --> 00:52:28,191
- It's not like I'd be fibbing.
- 719
- 00:52:28,354 --> 00:52:30,777
- I just want him to think I can do this
- on my own.
- 720
- 00:52:32,858 --> 00:52:35,236
- I really need a maid.
- 721
- 00:52:37,237 --> 00:52:39,615
- I'll be here tomorrow morning
- about 9:15.
- 722
- 00:52:41,742 --> 00:52:42,868
- Great.
- 723
- 00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:48,549
- - Miss Celia?
- - Hmm?
- 724
- 00:52:49,124 --> 00:52:51,001
- I think you done burned up your cake.
- 725
- 00:52:54,088 --> 00:52:55,431
- Doggone it!
- 726
- 00:53:01,345 --> 00:53:03,848
- - OK, let's see.
- - What's first up on the agenda?
- 727
- 00:53:04,973 --> 00:53:10,150
- We are running behind on our coat drive.
- Hurry up and clean out those closets.
- 728
- 00:53:10,312 --> 00:53:15,364
- But our Christmas benefit, however,
- is right on schedule. Mary Beth?
- 729
- 00:53:16,568 --> 00:53:21,290
- Well, thanks to y'all, I can announce
- that we already filled
- 730
- 00:53:21,448 --> 00:53:24,497
- every raffle slot for baked goods!
- 731
- 00:53:26,912 --> 00:53:30,416
- Think we can put a dent in
- African children's hunger this year?
- 732
- 00:53:31,500 --> 00:53:33,594
- A big dent!
- 733
- 00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:37,881
- Now...
- 734
- 00:53:38,048 --> 00:53:40,676
- ...I just found out
- the surgeon general
- 735
- 00:53:40,843 --> 00:53:44,222
- has reviewed the Home Health
- Sanitation Initiative that I drafted,
- 736
- 00:53:44,388 --> 00:53:48,393
- and he passed it along
- to Governor Barnett!
- 737
- 00:53:49,143 --> 00:53:52,568
- Skeeter, when can we expect to see
- the initiative in the newsletter?
- 738
- 00:53:52,730 --> 00:53:54,403
- I gave it to you a month ago.
- 739
- 00:53:54,565 --> 00:53:56,488
- I gave that to you myself.
- 740
- 00:53:56,650 --> 00:53:59,620
- Would you please stand, Skeeter?
- 741
- 00:54:04,491 --> 00:54:06,414
- I'll have it in there real soon.
- 742
- 00:54:09,413 --> 00:54:10,665
- Great.
- 743
- 00:54:19,006 --> 00:54:21,384
- - Sorry I'm late.
- - Hey.
- 744
- 00:54:29,308 --> 00:54:30,309
- Thanks.
- 745
- 00:54:35,355 --> 00:54:38,575
- Hilly, I really am sorry
- about the newsletter.
- 746
- 00:54:38,734 --> 00:54:41,032
- It's just with Mama being sick and all.
- 747
- 00:54:42,988 --> 00:54:44,706
- Oh, it's fine.
- 748
- 00:54:47,075 --> 00:54:49,419
- I made you the egg and olive on rye,
- Miss Skeeter.
- 749
- 00:54:49,578 --> 00:54:51,956
- Oh, thank you, Henry.
- 750
- 00:54:52,122 --> 00:54:53,624
- You remembered.
- 751
- 00:54:53,791 --> 00:54:55,134
- You're welcome.
- 752
- 00:54:57,628 --> 00:54:59,630
- Oh, Hilly, tell her.
- I can hardly stand it.
- 753
- 00:55:00,506 --> 00:55:03,100
- He's coming.
- 754
- 00:55:03,258 --> 00:55:06,683
- Oh, Skeeter, Stuart's definitely
- coming this time. Next Saturday week.
- 755
- 00:55:06,845 --> 00:55:11,601
- Well, he's canceled twice before.
- Don't you think maybe that's a sign?
- 756
- 00:55:11,767 --> 00:55:14,111
- Don't you dare say that.
- 757
- 00:55:14,269 --> 00:55:16,021
- You know I'm not gonna be his type.
- 758
- 00:55:16,188 --> 00:55:18,407
- Damn it, Skeeter, I'm not gonna
- let you miss out on this
- 759
- 00:55:18,565 --> 00:55:21,785
- because your mother convinced you you're
- not good enough for somebody like him.
- 760
- 00:55:25,823 --> 00:55:27,666
- Saturday night.
- 761
- 00:56:05,821 --> 00:56:08,495
- Good morning.
- 762
- 00:56:08,657 --> 00:56:11,581
- Good morning, Baby Girl.
- 763
- 00:56:11,743 --> 00:56:14,041
- Good morning.
- 764
- 00:56:26,508 --> 00:56:28,806
- I reckon I'm ready to talk about
- Miss Leefolt now.
- 765
- 00:56:31,889 --> 00:56:35,063
- Baby Girl still gotta wear a diaper
- when she sleep at night.
- 766
- 00:56:35,225 --> 00:56:37,478
- And it don't get changed till
- I get there in the morning.
- 767
- 00:56:37,644 --> 00:56:40,488
- That about ten hours
- she gotta sleep in her mess.
- 768
- 00:56:41,815 --> 00:56:44,409
- Now Miss Leefolt pregnant
- with her second baby.
- 769
- 00:56:45,235 --> 00:56:48,580
- Lord... I pray this child
- turn out good.
- 770
- 00:56:49,489 --> 00:56:52,288
- It's a lonely road if a mama
- don't think their child is pretty.
- 771
- 00:56:55,245 --> 00:56:57,088
- That's very true.
- 772
- 00:57:00,959 --> 00:57:02,927
- Miss Leefolt should not
- be having babies.
- 773
- 00:57:07,382 --> 00:57:08,508
- Write that down.
- 774
- 00:57:15,641 --> 00:57:18,315
- Treelore would like me doing this.
- 775
- 00:57:18,477 --> 00:57:21,276
- He always said we were gonna have
- a writer in the family one day.
- 776
- 00:57:21,438 --> 00:57:23,861
- I always thought it was gonna be him.
- Maybe it's gonna be me.
- 777
- 00:57:24,942 --> 00:57:26,910
- Aibileen, Aibileen.
- 778
- 00:57:27,069 --> 00:57:29,868
- They done set a bomb off
- in Medgar Evers' carport.
- 779
- 00:57:38,372 --> 00:57:42,172
- Yule Mae told me what y'all was up to.
- I didn't want to believe it.
- 780
- 00:57:44,962 --> 00:57:48,011
- And just what makes you think
- colored people need your help?
- 781
- 00:57:49,132 --> 00:57:50,725
- - Why do you care?
- - Minny.
- 782
- 00:57:50,884 --> 00:57:52,682
- Maybe you just want
- to get Aibileen in trouble.
- 783
- 00:57:52,844 --> 00:57:54,437
- No.
- 784
- 00:57:54,596 --> 00:57:56,974
- I want to show her perspective.
- 785
- 00:57:57,140 --> 00:58:00,815
- So people might understand
- what it's like from your side.
- 786
- 00:58:00,978 --> 00:58:03,652
- Well, it's a real Fourth of July picnic.
- 787
- 00:58:04,231 --> 00:58:07,485
- It's what we dream of doing
- all weekend long.
- 788
- 00:58:07,651 --> 00:58:10,404
- Get back into they house,
- polish the silver.
- 789
- 00:58:10,570 --> 00:58:15,167
- And we just love not making minimum wage
- or getting Social Security.
- 790
- 00:58:17,119 --> 00:58:20,043
- And how we love they children
- when they little.
- 791
- 00:58:20,872 --> 00:58:24,001
- And then they turn out
- just like they mamas.
- 792
- 00:58:24,167 --> 00:58:25,214
- I know.
- 793
- 00:58:27,254 --> 00:58:28,756
- Maybe things can change.
- 794
- 00:58:28,922 --> 00:58:31,016
- What law's gonna say you
- gotta be nice to your maid?
- 795
- 00:58:31,174 --> 00:58:32,721
- You don't have to do this now, Minny.
- 796
- 00:58:32,884 --> 00:58:34,511
- You damn right I don't!
- 797
- 00:58:35,345 --> 00:58:37,393
- You two give me the heart palpitations.
- 798
- 00:58:41,893 --> 00:58:42,985
- And that's a good mood.
- 799
- 00:58:55,115 --> 00:58:57,538
- All right. I'm gonna do it.
- 800
- 00:58:57,701 --> 00:59:01,672
- But I need to make sure she understands
- this ain't no game we playing here.
- 801
- 00:59:03,707 --> 00:59:06,335
- Slide your chair out from under
- that table. Face me.
- 802
- 00:59:09,129 --> 00:59:12,884
- I need to see you square on
- at all times.
- 803
- 00:59:22,601 --> 00:59:24,194
- I gotta come up with
- your questions, too?
- 804
- 00:59:24,352 --> 00:59:25,444
- Oh.
- 805
- 00:59:26,813 --> 00:59:31,034
- Uh, let's begin
- with where you were born.
- 806
- 00:59:31,193 --> 00:59:34,948
- Belzoni, Mississippi,
- on my great-auntie's sofa.
- 807
- 00:59:35,113 --> 00:59:36,239
- Next.
- 808
- 00:59:36,406 --> 00:59:38,750
- - I put the green beans in first.
- - OK.
- 809
- 00:59:38,909 --> 00:59:42,038
- Then I get on the pork chops so I can
- get started on that cornbread.
- 810
- 00:59:42,204 --> 00:59:45,708
- Once Minny got to talking
- about food, she liked to never stop.
- 811
- 00:59:47,459 --> 00:59:51,180
- And when she got to talking about
- the white ladies, it took all night.
- 812
- 00:59:51,338 --> 00:59:55,844
- Then she say, "Oh, Minny,
- I'm gonna give you a paid vacation."
- 813
- 00:59:56,009 --> 00:59:58,558
- I ain't never had no paid vacation
- in my life.
- 814
- 00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:01,314
- A week later I come back,
- and they done moved to Mobile.
- 815
- 01:00:02,682 --> 01:00:05,902
- Miss Lazy Fingers scared I'd find
- a new job before she moved.
- 816
- 01:00:06,061 --> 01:00:08,109
- Ain't that right, Aibileen?
- 817
- 01:00:13,819 --> 01:00:15,446
- We gots to get some more maids.
- 818
- 01:00:16,488 --> 01:00:18,957
- It hard. You go try and see.
- 819
- 01:00:21,243 --> 01:00:22,745
- OK, I will.
- 820
- 01:00:29,209 --> 01:00:30,586
- We gone and done it now.
- 821
- 01:00:33,171 --> 01:00:38,348
- Skeeter! Get down here! Something just
- arrived from New York for you.
- 822
- 01:00:53,942 --> 01:00:54,943
- What is that?
- 823
- 01:00:55,110 --> 01:00:58,785
- The Shinalator.
- All the way from New York City.
- 824
- 01:00:59,614 --> 01:01:02,493
- I'm a good mother.
- Come on. Sit down.
- 825
- 01:01:04,077 --> 01:01:09,299
- The whole system cost 11 dollars.
- Even smells expensive.
- 826
- 01:01:10,959 --> 01:01:14,384
- You're gonna look beautiful
- on your date tonight.
- 827
- 01:01:14,546 --> 01:01:16,890
- I can feel the hope in your fingers.
- 828
- 01:01:19,885 --> 01:01:21,887
- Holy shit.
- 829
- 01:01:22,053 --> 01:01:24,647
- - You shrunk five inches.
- - Oh, my God.
- 830
- 01:01:24,806 --> 01:01:26,854
- You'll be able to wear heels tonight.
- 831
- 01:01:27,684 --> 01:01:31,029
- You're not leaving the house in those
- awful Mexican man shoes.
- 832
- 01:01:31,188 --> 01:01:32,280
- Can I take the Cadillac?
- 833
- 01:01:32,439 --> 01:01:34,862
- We promised the Cadillac
- to Carlton and Rebecca tonight,
- 834
- 01:01:35,025 --> 01:01:38,154
- so William's cousin will just
- have to come pick you up himself.
- 835
- 01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:40,914
- - I'll take the truck.
- - It's hooked up to the motor grader.
- 836
- 01:01:41,072 --> 01:01:42,073
- I'll drive slow.
- 837
- 01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:44,993
- Skeeter! Skeeter!
- 838
- 01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:50,007
- Now remember, no gentleman wants
- to spend the evening with a sourpuss.
- 839
- 01:01:50,165 --> 01:01:53,419
- Don't mope! Smile!
- 840
- 01:01:53,585 --> 01:01:58,933
- And for heaven's sakes, don't sit like
- some squaw Indian! Cross your ankles!
- 841
- 01:02:00,133 --> 01:02:01,601
- I love you!
- 842
- 01:02:11,061 --> 01:02:12,654
- Stuart, she'll be here any minute.
- 843
- 01:02:14,439 --> 01:02:15,486
- Hey.-
- 844
- 01:02:17,817 --> 01:02:19,160
- Skeeter.
- 845
- 01:02:21,488 --> 01:02:25,538
- Boys, we'll be right back. Y'all talk
- about quarterbacks or something.
- 846
- 01:02:25,700 --> 01:02:27,498
- Yule Mae, get Miss Skeeter a Coca-Cola.
- 847
- 01:02:27,661 --> 01:02:28,833
- Yes, ma'am.
- 848
- 01:02:43,051 --> 01:02:44,052
- Want a drink?
- 849
- 01:02:44,219 --> 01:02:46,017
- Just water, please.
- 850
- 01:02:47,472 --> 01:02:51,443
- Double Old Kentucky, straight
- with a water back. Make that two backs.
- 851
- 01:02:51,601 --> 01:02:54,480
- You sure you don't want to just make it
- the whole bottle and a straw?
- 852
- 01:02:55,272 --> 01:02:57,946
- Honey, there's the lieutenant governor.
- Let's go say hi.
- 853
- 01:03:02,404 --> 01:03:04,907
- Good to see you, sir.
- You remember my wife?
- 854
- 01:03:05,073 --> 01:03:06,290
- Hi, how are you? Good to see you.
- 855
- 01:03:11,371 --> 01:03:14,671
- So, what do you do with your time?
- 856
- 01:03:15,834 --> 01:03:16,881
- You work?
- 857
- 01:03:17,669 --> 01:03:19,091
- I write.
- 858
- 01:03:20,130 --> 01:03:22,633
- But right now I'm working on
- a domestic maintenance column
- 859
- 01:03:22,799 --> 01:03:23,891
- for The Jackson Journal.
- 860
- 01:03:26,011 --> 01:03:27,183
- You mean housekeeping.
- 861
- 01:03:28,346 --> 01:03:31,896
- Jesus, I can't think of anything worse
- than reading a cleaning column,
- 862
- 01:03:32,058 --> 01:03:33,901
- except for maybe writing one.
- 863
- 01:03:34,060 --> 01:03:35,607
- Well, I can.
- 864
- 01:03:35,770 --> 01:03:39,866
- Working with a bunch of greasy,
- stinky men in the middle of the ocean.
- 865
- 01:03:40,025 --> 01:03:43,529
- It sounds like a ploy to find a husband,
- becoming an expert in keeping house.
- 866
- 01:03:43,695 --> 01:03:47,325
- Well, aren't you a genius?
- You figured out my whole scheme.
- 867
- 01:03:47,490 --> 01:03:50,710
- Isn't that what all you girls
- from Ole Miss major in...
- 868
- 01:03:50,869 --> 01:03:52,587
- ...professional husband hunting?
- 869
- 01:03:52,746 --> 01:03:55,670
- Who is hungry?
- 870
- 01:03:55,832 --> 01:03:59,427
- I'm sorry, but were you dropped
- on your head as an infant?
- 871
- 01:03:59,586 --> 01:04:01,179
- Or were you just born stupid?
- 872
- 01:04:23,026 --> 01:04:25,074
- So, what can you cook?
- 873
- 01:04:26,363 --> 01:04:29,663
- Oh, um, I can cook cornpone.
- 874
- 01:04:30,825 --> 01:04:32,327
- Boil potatoes.
- 875
- 01:04:33,370 --> 01:04:34,462
- I can do grits.
- 876
- 01:04:37,999 --> 01:04:39,046
- Well...
- 877
- 01:04:39,959 --> 01:04:43,884
- ...I reckon if there's anything you
- ought to know about cooking, it's this.
- 878
- 01:04:44,047 --> 01:04:47,142
- The most important invention since
- they put mayonnaise in a jar.
- 879
- 01:04:49,302 --> 01:04:51,270
- You got gum in your hair,
- 880
- 01:04:51,429 --> 01:04:53,648
- you got a squeaky door hinge...
- 881
- 01:04:53,807 --> 01:04:54,808
- Crisco.
- 882
- 01:04:56,559 --> 01:04:58,186
- How pretty.
- 883
- 01:05:00,105 --> 01:05:02,028
- Looks like frosting.
- 884
- 01:05:02,190 --> 01:05:05,069
- You got bags under your eyes.
- 885
- 01:05:05,235 --> 01:05:07,203
- Want to soften your husband's
- scaly feet.
- 886
- 01:05:08,321 --> 01:05:09,948
- Mm-hm. Crisco.
- 887
- 01:05:11,366 --> 01:05:14,415
- But it's best for frying chicken.
- 888
- 01:05:15,662 --> 01:05:17,335
- Frying chicken just...
- 889
- 01:05:18,498 --> 01:05:20,592
- ...tend to make you
- feel better about life.
- 890
- 01:05:24,129 --> 01:05:25,551
- At least me, anyway.
- 891
- 01:05:26,923 --> 01:05:29,597
- Mm, I love me some fried chicken.
- 892
- 01:05:31,177 --> 01:05:32,269
- Now...
- 893
- 01:05:34,305 --> 01:05:35,306
- ...shake that.
- 894
- 01:05:35,473 --> 01:05:36,975
- Oh.
- 895
- 01:05:41,813 --> 01:05:44,657
- This is so much fun!
- 896
- 01:05:46,067 --> 01:05:49,537
- All right, all right.
- The chicken already dead, Miss Celia.
- 897
- 01:05:53,283 --> 01:05:54,660
- Yep. He dead.
- 898
- 01:06:05,837 --> 01:06:07,180
- There you are.
- 899
- 01:06:08,506 --> 01:06:13,387
- I'm starved. Looks so good.
- 900
- 01:06:13,928 --> 01:06:15,646
- We done been over this, Miss Celia.
- 901
- 01:06:15,805 --> 01:06:19,685
- You supposed to eat in the dining room.
- That's how it works.
- 902
- 01:06:19,851 --> 01:06:21,023
- Let me take your plate back.
- 903
- 01:06:21,686 --> 01:06:23,780
- I'm fine right here, Minny.
- 904
- 01:06:43,291 --> 01:06:44,292
- What?
- 905
- 01:06:45,752 --> 01:06:47,971
- I just want you to know
- I'm real grateful you're here.
- 906
- 01:06:48,129 --> 01:06:50,882
- You gots plenty more
- to be grateful for than me.
- 907
- 01:06:52,300 --> 01:06:55,645
- And look, now I ain't
- messing around no more.
- 908
- 01:06:55,803 --> 01:06:57,100
- Now Mr. Johnny gonna catch me here,
- 909
- 01:06:57,263 --> 01:07:00,107
- and shoot me dead right here
- on this no-wax floor.
- 910
- 01:07:01,184 --> 01:07:02,231
- You gots to tell him.
- 911
- 01:07:02,393 --> 01:07:05,237
- Ain't he wondering how
- the cooking's so good?
- 912
- 01:07:05,396 --> 01:07:07,023
- You're right.
- 913
- 01:07:08,858 --> 01:07:10,860
- Maybe we ought to
- burn the chicken a little.
- 914
- 01:07:12,946 --> 01:07:14,619
- Minny don't burn chicken.
- 915
- 01:07:17,325 --> 01:07:20,955
- I like this Sarah Ross. She testifies
- without complaining too much.
- 916
- 01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:24,750
- And that Bertha,
- she's got chutzpah, I'll give her that.
- 917
- 01:07:24,916 --> 01:07:26,259
- So you liked it?
- 918
- 01:07:26,417 --> 01:07:29,045
- Eugenia, Martin Luther King
- just invited
- 919
- 01:07:29,212 --> 01:07:32,182
- the entire country to march with him
- in D.C. in August.
- 920
- 01:07:32,340 --> 01:07:33,683
- This many Negroes and whites
- 921
- 01:07:33,841 --> 01:07:36,219
- have not worked together since
- Gone with the Wind.
- 922
- 01:07:36,386 --> 01:07:39,139
- How many stories have you
- recorded thus far?
- 923
- 01:07:39,305 --> 01:07:41,307
- The ones you've read.
- 924
- 01:07:41,474 --> 01:07:43,317
- Two domestics, that's all?
- 925
- 01:07:45,562 --> 01:07:47,485
- I'm real close to
- getting more interviews.
- 926
- 01:07:47,647 --> 01:07:51,652
- Don't send me anything else
- until you do have more maids.
- 927
- 01:07:51,818 --> 01:07:54,662
- Yes, ma'am. How... how many more?
- 928
- 01:07:54,821 --> 01:07:57,700
- I don't know. At least a dozen.
- 929
- 01:07:57,865 --> 01:08:01,210
- My advice to you is to write it
- and write it fast
- 930
- 01:08:01,369 --> 01:08:03,713
- before this whole civil rights thing
- blows over.
- 931
- 01:08:03,871 --> 01:08:05,544
- Now good night to you, Miss Phelan.
- 932
- 01:08:18,011 --> 01:08:20,059
- We need a dozen more.
- 933
- 01:08:20,888 --> 01:08:25,143
- Me and Aibileen done asked everybody
- we know. Thirty-one maids.
- 934
- 01:08:26,060 --> 01:08:28,108
- They all too scared. Think we crazy.
- 935
- 01:08:29,981 --> 01:08:32,109
- If we don't get more,
- we're not getting published.
- 936
- 01:08:32,275 --> 01:08:35,245
- I gots plenty stories,
- Miss Skeeter.
- 937
- 01:08:35,403 --> 01:08:38,998
- Just write them down
- and invent the maid that said it.
- 938
- 01:08:39,157 --> 01:08:41,706
- You're already making up names.
- Just make up the maids, too.
- 939
- 01:08:41,868 --> 01:08:45,793
- We're not gonna do that.
- That would be wrong.
- 940
- 01:08:45,955 --> 01:08:47,298
- Don't give up on this, Miss Skeeter.
- 941
- 01:08:47,457 --> 01:08:49,084
- It wouldn't be real.
- 942
- 01:08:50,627 --> 01:08:52,174
- They Killed my son.
- 943
- 01:08:59,969 --> 01:09:02,222
- He fell carrying two-by-fours
- at the mill.
- 944
- 01:09:03,806 --> 01:09:05,979
- Truck run over him, crushed his lung.
- 945
- 01:09:06,142 --> 01:09:07,735
- Aibileen.
- 946
- 01:09:11,064 --> 01:09:13,817
- That white foreman threw his body
- on back of a truck.
- 947
- 01:09:14,609 --> 01:09:17,488
- Drove to the colored hospital...
- 948
- 01:09:17,654 --> 01:09:19,622
- ...dumped him there and honked the horn.
- 949
- 01:09:30,083 --> 01:09:34,304
- There was nothing they could do,
- so I brought my baby home.
- 950
- 01:09:39,050 --> 01:09:41,303
- Laid him down on that sofa right there.
- 951
- 01:09:44,931 --> 01:09:46,933
- He died right in front of me.
- 952
- 01:09:49,519 --> 01:09:53,149
- He was just 24 years old, Miss Skeeter.
- Best part of a person's life.
- 953
- 01:09:54,774 --> 01:09:58,369
- Anniversary of his death comes...
- 954
- 01:09:58,528 --> 01:10:00,906
- ...every year, and I can't breathe.
- 955
- 01:10:01,072 --> 01:10:03,291
- But to y'all, it's just
- another day of bridge.
- 956
- 01:10:07,745 --> 01:10:09,213
- You stop this...
- 957
- 01:10:10,498 --> 01:10:14,298
- ...everything I wrote, he wrote,
- everything he was is gonna die with him.
- 958
- 01:10:24,512 --> 01:10:27,732
- I am just honored
- to be hosting Elizabeth's shower.
- 959
- 01:10:27,890 --> 01:10:30,109
- Doesn't she look glowing, everybody?
- 960
- 01:10:30,268 --> 01:10:32,737
- Yes, she does!
- 961
- 01:10:32,895 --> 01:10:35,318
- Honey, you hold on to it,
- to the bitter end.
- 962
- 01:10:36,983 --> 01:10:39,031
- - I'll try.
- - Well, congratulations.
- 963
- 01:10:41,070 --> 01:10:43,164
- I'm hungry, Mommy.
- 964
- 01:10:43,322 --> 01:10:44,494
- She's always hungry.
- 965
- 01:10:47,493 --> 01:10:49,086
- You know she can hear you, Elizabeth.
- 966
- 01:10:49,245 --> 01:10:53,500
- I'll cut you
- a piece of cake, baby. Go on, now.
- 967
- 01:10:57,545 --> 01:11:02,392
- Aibileen, are you enjoying your new
- bathroom over at Elizabeth's'?
- 968
- 01:11:02,550 --> 01:11:06,305
- Nice to have your own.
- Isn't it, Aibileen?
- 969
- 01:11:10,850 --> 01:11:14,150
- Yes, ma'am. And I thank you.
- 970
- 01:11:14,312 --> 01:11:16,986
- Separate, but equal.
- 971
- 01:11:17,690 --> 01:11:20,113
- That's what Ross Barnett says,
- and you can't argue with the governor.
- 972
- 01:11:20,276 --> 01:11:24,497
- Well, certainly not in Mississippi,
- the birthplace of modern-day government.
- 973
- 01:11:40,838 --> 01:11:44,263
- Hey, Miss Skeeter.
- Can I get you something?
- 974
- 01:11:44,425 --> 01:11:45,426
- No, thanks.
- 975
- 01:11:46,719 --> 01:11:49,097
- Yule Mae, I wanted to talk to you
- about something.
- 976
- 01:11:51,682 --> 01:11:53,855
- I already know what you're gonna ask,
- Miss Skeeter.
- 977
- 01:11:56,479 --> 01:11:58,231
- Minny and Aibileen already did.
- 978
- 01:12:03,402 --> 01:12:05,996
- I'm trying to get my boys
- off to college.
- 979
- 01:12:07,865 --> 01:12:10,869
- It's worthwhile what
- y'all are doing, but...
- 980
- 01:12:11,035 --> 01:12:13,629
- ...but my boys are worth more.
- 981
- 01:12:14,413 --> 01:12:15,460
- I understand.
- 982
- 01:12:19,335 --> 01:12:22,805
- What do you understand, Skeeter?
- 983
- 01:12:24,924 --> 01:12:29,555
- Yule Mae was just saying how excited she
- is that her boys are going to college.
- 984
- 01:12:30,388 --> 01:12:33,062
- Did you also ask Miss Skeeter
- if you could borrow money?
- 985
- 01:12:33,891 --> 01:12:35,234
- Of course not.
- 986
- 01:12:37,395 --> 01:12:39,397
- I'm gonna put Billy down for his nap.
- 987
- 01:12:41,357 --> 01:12:42,779
- Excuse me.
- 988
- 01:12:45,820 --> 01:12:47,163
- Come on, baby.
- 989
- 01:12:54,829 --> 01:12:59,585
- Skeeter, are you intentionally not
- putting my initiative in the newsletter?
- 990
- 01:12:59,750 --> 01:13:03,550
- No, not at all. I just have been
- really busy with Mama.
- 991
- 01:13:03,713 --> 01:13:05,556
- I know.
- 992
- 01:13:05,715 --> 01:13:09,345
- I know, you must be so worried
- about your mother, but...
- 993
- 01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:12,267
- I'm worried about you.
- 994
- 01:13:13,306 --> 01:13:14,899
- Reading this stuff?
- 995
- 01:13:15,766 --> 01:13:19,691
- Believe it or not, there are real
- racists in this town.
- 996
- 01:13:20,438 --> 01:13:22,611
- If the wrong person caught you
- with anything like that,
- 997
- 01:13:22,773 --> 01:13:24,775
- you'd be in serious trouble.
- 998
- 01:13:26,652 --> 01:13:28,325
- I'll be on the lookout.
- 999
- 01:13:32,533 --> 01:13:34,535
- Put my initiative in the newsletter.
- 1000
- 01:13:38,205 --> 01:13:39,422
- OK?
- 1001
- 01:14:28,923 --> 01:14:31,142
- Skeeter, get up!
- 1002
- 01:14:31,300 --> 01:14:33,644
- - No! What?
- - We've got to get dressed.
- 1003
- 01:14:35,388 --> 01:14:36,514
- What's wrong?
- 1004
- 01:14:36,681 --> 01:14:39,025
- Don't panic. Don't panic.
- 1005
- 01:14:39,183 --> 01:14:44,064
- There's a particularly tall and very
- handsome man named Stuart here for you.
- 1006
- 01:14:45,147 --> 01:14:46,990
- Oh, God.
- 1007
- 01:14:47,149 --> 01:14:49,151
- Oh, mother.
- 1008
- 01:14:49,318 --> 01:14:51,867
- You would not like him. Trust me.
- 1009
- 01:14:52,029 --> 01:14:53,281
- He's a drunken asshole.
- 1010
- 01:14:53,447 --> 01:14:57,668
- Love and hate are two horns on the same
- goat, Eugenia, and you need a goat.
- 1011
- 01:14:57,827 --> 01:14:59,955
- Put that on. Hurry!
- 1012
- 01:15:06,752 --> 01:15:08,129
- Look, I know it was a few weeks back,
- 1013
- 01:15:08,295 --> 01:15:12,220
- but I came to say I'm sorry
- for the way I acted.
- 1014
- 01:15:12,383 --> 01:15:14,351
- Who sent you, William or Hilly?
- 1015
- 01:15:14,510 --> 01:15:15,636
- Neither.
- 1016
- 01:15:15,803 --> 01:15:18,181
- Hilly. But I wanted to come, OK.
- 1017
- 01:15:18,347 --> 01:15:20,441
- I was rude, and I've been
- thinking about it a lot.
- 1018
- 01:15:21,017 --> 01:15:24,021
- - Well, I haven't. So you can just go.
- - Goddamn it!
- 1019
- 01:15:25,896 --> 01:15:29,776
- I told Hilly I wasn't ready to go out on
- any date. Wasn't even close to ready.
- 1020
- 01:15:34,321 --> 01:15:36,790
- I was engaged last year. She ended it.
- 1021
- 01:15:36,949 --> 01:15:38,292
- I'm sure she did.
- 1022
- 01:15:38,451 --> 01:15:40,874
- It's not like that.
- I'm not always a jerk.
- 1023
- 01:15:43,372 --> 01:15:46,717
- We had been dating since we were 15,
- and you know how it is.
- 1024
- 01:15:46,876 --> 01:15:49,880
- Actually, I don't. I've never really
- dated anyone before.
- 1025
- 01:15:50,504 --> 01:15:51,505
- Ever?
- 1026
- 01:15:52,590 --> 01:15:53,591
- Ever.
- 1027
- 01:15:55,593 --> 01:15:57,971
- All right, I, uh...
- 1028
- 01:15:59,889 --> 01:16:01,357
- Well, that must be it, then.
- 1029
- 01:16:01,515 --> 01:16:02,858
- - What?
- - You, Skeeter.
- 1030
- 01:16:03,017 --> 01:16:05,440
- I've never met a woman that says
- exactly what she's thinking.
- 1031
- 01:16:05,603 --> 01:16:08,402
- - Well, I got plenty to say.
- - Yeah, I'll bet you do.
- 1032
- 01:16:10,274 --> 01:16:12,402
- You make me laugh, smile.
- 1033
- 01:16:16,197 --> 01:16:17,915
- Would you like to come
- have dinner with me?
- 1034
- 01:16:19,492 --> 01:16:22,837
- We could talk. I could actually
- listen to you this time.
- 1035
- 01:16:23,788 --> 01:16:25,711
- I can't think of anything worse.
- 1036
- 01:16:27,500 --> 01:16:29,298
- I understand, and I'm sorry.
- 1037
- 01:16:29,460 --> 01:16:32,009
- That's what
- I came here to say, and I said it.
- 1038
- 01:16:39,345 --> 01:16:40,437
- Just give me a minute.
- 1039
- 01:16:41,388 --> 01:16:42,640
- Let me get my sweater.
- 1040
- 01:16:48,813 --> 01:16:50,486
- Not a big fan of oysters, huh?
- 1041
- 01:16:50,648 --> 01:16:53,367
- Oysters are a vehicle
- for crackers and ketchup.
- 1042
- 01:16:55,069 --> 01:16:57,447
- Well, here's to new beginnings.
- 1043
- 01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:04,628
- Mm.
- 1044
- 01:17:06,747 --> 01:17:07,839
- You're disgusting.
- 1045
- 01:17:07,998 --> 01:17:09,591
- You've already made that pretty clear.
- 1046
- 01:17:10,626 --> 01:17:13,300
- And just so you know,
- the boys caught me reading
- 1047
- 01:17:13,462 --> 01:17:15,430
- your Miss Myrna column
- on the rig the other day.
- 1048
- 01:17:15,589 --> 01:17:18,092
- Really? You read them?
- 1049
- 01:17:18,259 --> 01:17:19,260
- All of them.
- 1050
- 01:17:20,219 --> 01:17:21,596
- Very informative, too.
- 1051
- 01:17:21,762 --> 01:17:24,561
- I had no idea that ground egg shells
- got grease out of clothes.
- 1052
- 01:17:24,723 --> 01:17:26,145
- Well, I do my homework.
- 1053
- 01:17:32,231 --> 01:17:33,904
- You're a good writer, Skeeter.
- 1054
- 01:17:35,401 --> 01:17:36,402
- Thank you.
- 1055
- 01:17:39,113 --> 01:17:40,740
- I want to be a journalist.
- 1056
- 01:17:41,824 --> 01:17:44,953
- Or maybe a novelist. Or maybe both.
- 1057
- 01:17:45,661 --> 01:17:47,083
- I like that.
- 1058
- 01:17:49,415 --> 01:17:51,759
- You're really smart. And pretty.
- 1059
- 01:18:00,634 --> 01:18:01,977
- Skeeter.
- 1060
- 01:18:03,304 --> 01:18:05,147
- I hope you get to write something
- really good.
- 1061
- 01:18:06,348 --> 01:18:07,691
- Something you believe in.
- 1062
- 01:18:20,112 --> 01:18:21,113
- Hello?
- 1063
- 01:18:23,365 --> 01:18:26,460
- What? I'm coming!
- 1064
- 01:18:26,619 --> 01:18:29,998
- Aibileen! Come on. We have to go
- help Hilly. Right now!
- 1065
- 01:18:34,627 --> 01:18:38,131
- Oh! You're trespassing!
- 1066
- 01:18:38,297 --> 01:18:40,220
- It's Skeeter!
- 1067
- 01:18:40,382 --> 01:18:41,725
- She put it in the newsletter.
- 1068
- 01:18:41,884 --> 01:18:43,101
- Oh, my God.
- 1069
- 01:18:43,260 --> 01:18:47,891
- I specifically said,
- "Drop old coats at my house."
- 1070
- 01:18:48,057 --> 01:18:50,105
- Not commodes!
- 1071
- 01:18:50,267 --> 01:18:52,110
- Why would she do this to me?
- 1072
- 01:18:52,269 --> 01:18:54,112
- I don't know. I don't Know, Hilly.
- 1073
- 01:18:54,271 --> 01:18:56,945
- It's so embarrassing.
- 1074
- 01:19:04,990 --> 01:19:06,708
- Oh, Lord.
- 1075
- 01:19:06,867 --> 01:19:08,244
- I go potty, Mommy.
- 1076
- 01:19:09,245 --> 01:19:11,293
- No! Mae Mobley!
- 1077
- 01:19:11,455 --> 01:19:13,503
- You get off of that toilet!
- 1078
- 01:19:15,167 --> 01:19:17,465
- - You will catch diseases, you hear me?
- - Mommy!
- 1079
- 01:19:17,628 --> 01:19:19,630
- You will catch diseases
- on those toilets.
- 1080
- 01:19:33,394 --> 01:19:37,490
- You is kind, you is smart,
- 1081
- 01:19:37,648 --> 01:19:39,867
- you is important.
- 1082
- 01:19:50,327 --> 01:19:53,297
- Don't shop for anything
- on Capitol Street.
- 1083
- 01:19:53,455 --> 01:19:58,336
- Let's let the merchants down on
- Capitol Street feel the economic pinch.
- 1084
- 01:19:58,502 --> 01:20:00,425
- Let me say this to you.
- 1085
- 01:20:00,587 --> 01:20:03,306
- I had one merchant to call me,
- and he said,
- 1086
- 01:20:03,465 --> 01:20:08,096
- "I want you to know that I've
- talked to my national office today,
- 1087
- 01:20:08,262 --> 01:20:11,562
- and they want me to tell you that we
- don't need nigger business."
- 1088
- 01:20:12,975 --> 01:20:16,730
- These are stores that help to support
- the White Citizens' Council,
- 1089
- 01:20:16,895 --> 01:20:21,116
- the council that is dedicated to keeping
- you and I second-class citizens.
- 1090
- 01:20:21,650 --> 01:20:23,118
- Mama!
- 1091
- 01:20:25,946 --> 01:20:27,493
- Don't encourage them like that.
- 1092
- 01:20:27,656 --> 01:20:30,034
- - That is national news.
- - I won't have it!
- 1093
- 01:20:32,953 --> 01:20:34,250
- You understand?
- 1094
- 01:20:44,673 --> 01:20:46,016
- How you doing, Miss Clark?
- 1095
- 01:20:47,634 --> 01:20:50,228
- All right, Henry.
- 1096
- 01:20:50,387 --> 01:20:52,264
- Thank you. How you doing?
- 1097
- 01:20:53,599 --> 01:20:57,354
- If God is willing, Miss Clark.
- If God is willing.
- 1098
- 01:20:57,519 --> 01:20:58,941
- That's good.
- 1099
- 01:20:59,104 --> 01:21:00,697
- - Yeah.
- - That's good.
- 1100
- 01:21:09,406 --> 01:21:10,783
- What's going on out there, mister?
- 1101
- 01:21:10,949 --> 01:21:12,917
- Colored people off.
- 1102
- 01:21:13,077 --> 01:21:14,670
- The rest of you,
- let me know where you're going.
- 1103
- 01:21:14,828 --> 01:21:15,954
- I'll get you close as I can.
- 1104
- 01:21:16,121 --> 01:21:17,714
- What happened?
- 1105
- 01:21:17,873 --> 01:21:19,671
- I don't know. Some nigger got shot.
- 1106
- 01:21:20,667 --> 01:21:22,635
- - Where you headed?
- - Woodrow Wilson.
- 1107
- 01:21:22,795 --> 01:21:24,763
- Woodrow Wilson. All right.
- 1108
- 01:21:33,889 --> 01:21:37,689
- - You gonna be all right, Miss Clark?
- - I'll be all right. You go on now.
- 1109
- 01:21:37,851 --> 01:21:40,104
- - You want me to walk you?
- - No, thank you. I'll be all right.
- 1110
- 01:21:41,438 --> 01:21:42,781
- You have a good night.
- 1111
- 01:21:43,440 --> 01:21:45,158
- Which way you going?
- 1112
- 01:21:53,158 --> 01:21:56,128
- We View this as a cold,
- 1113
- 01:21:56,286 --> 01:21:58,254
- brutal, deliberate...
- 1114
- 01:21:59,415 --> 01:22:03,670
- ...killing in a savage,
- uncivilized state.
- 1115
- 01:22:03,836 --> 01:22:09,013
- There is no state with a record that
- approaches that of Mississippi
- 1116
- 01:22:09,174 --> 01:22:13,350
- in inhumanity murder, brutality
- 1117
- 01:22:13,512 --> 01:22:15,560
- and racial hatred.
- 1118
- 01:22:15,722 --> 01:22:19,397
- It is absolutely at the bottom
- of the list.
- 1119
- 01:22:20,894 --> 01:22:22,020
- Fifteen minutes past midnight,
- 1120
- 01:22:22,187 --> 01:22:25,942
- Evers got out of his car beside his home
- in a Negro residential area.
- 1121
- 01:22:26,108 --> 01:22:28,031
- In a vacant lot about 40 yards away
- 1122
- 01:22:28,193 --> 01:22:31,618
- a sniper fired a single shot from a
- high-powered rifle at Evers' silhouette.
- 1123
- 01:22:31,780 --> 01:22:34,124
- I'm all right. Sit down. You all right?
- 1124
- 01:22:34,283 --> 01:22:35,876
- - I'm OK.
- - The bullet hit him in the back,
- 1125
- 01:22:36,034 --> 01:22:38,913
- crashed through his body
- through a window, into the house.
- 1126
- 01:22:39,079 --> 01:22:41,548
- He died within an hour
- at a Jackson hospital.
- 1127
- 01:22:41,707 --> 01:22:44,051
- City detectives believe the fatal shot
- was fired from...
- 1128
- 01:22:44,209 --> 01:22:48,214
- KKK shot him. An hour ago.
- 1129
- 01:22:49,965 --> 01:22:51,933
- Right in front of his children,
- Aibileen.
- 1130
- 01:22:53,510 --> 01:22:56,559
- We're gonna pray for the Evers.
- We're gonna pray for Myrlie.
- 1131
- 01:22:56,722 --> 01:23:00,067
- We living in hell. Trapped.
- 1132
- 01:23:01,018 --> 01:23:02,440
- Our kids, trapped.
- 1133
- 01:23:05,898 --> 01:23:08,401
- Sugar, take your brothers and sisters
- and y'all go on to bed.
- 1134
- 01:23:13,864 --> 01:23:15,707
- Good night.
- 1135
- 01:23:15,866 --> 01:23:18,210
- Good night. Good night.
- 1136
- 01:23:20,579 --> 01:23:22,752
- Oh. Good night, baby.
- 1137
- 01:23:34,343 --> 01:23:36,471
- What they gonna do if they catch us
- with Miss Skeeter?
- 1138
- 01:23:37,471 --> 01:23:38,848
- We're gonna be careful.
- 1139
- 01:23:40,140 --> 01:23:44,862
- Hitch us to a pickup? Drag us behind?
- Shoot me in front of my children?
- 1140
- 01:23:45,020 --> 01:23:47,523
- We ain't doing civil rights.
- 1141
- 01:23:47,689 --> 01:23:50,613
- We're just telling stories
- like they really happened.
- 1142
- 01:23:52,486 --> 01:23:54,830
- You're a fool, old woman.
- 1143
- 01:23:56,031 --> 01:23:57,453
- A fool.
- 1144
- 01:24:28,021 --> 01:24:32,993
- Miss Phelan, the presses are heating up.
- We needed Miss Myrna 30 minutes ago.
- 1145
- 01:24:33,610 --> 01:24:34,611
- Yes, Sir.
- 1146
- 01:24:34,778 --> 01:24:36,325
- Chop-chop.
- 1147
- 01:24:37,614 --> 01:24:38,991
- Good Lord.
- 1148
- 01:24:54,923 --> 01:24:56,675
- Miss Celia?
- 1149
- 01:25:14,443 --> 01:25:15,490
- Miss Celia?
- 1150
- 01:25:15,652 --> 01:25:17,654
- - Go home.
- - I'll see you tomorrow.
- 1151
- 01:25:17,821 --> 01:25:20,074
- You mess up your hair coloring again?
- 1152
- 01:25:20,240 --> 01:25:23,710
- I helped you ix it last time.
- We got it back to butter batch.
- 1153
- 01:25:23,869 --> 01:25:25,462
- Was real pretty, remember?
- 1154
- 01:25:29,499 --> 01:25:30,842
- Miss Celia.
- 1155
- 01:25:31,960 --> 01:25:33,803
- I told you, go home!
- 1156
- 01:25:49,770 --> 01:25:51,317
- I said get out!
- 1157
- 01:26:07,204 --> 01:26:09,753
- Why is there so much blood?
- 1158
- 01:26:15,337 --> 01:26:19,262
- Next one's gonna catch, Miss Celia.
- You just wait and see.
- 1159
- 01:26:21,593 --> 01:26:24,267
- We got married 'cause I was pregnant.
- 1160
- 01:26:26,682 --> 01:26:29,026
- Then I lost it a month later.
- 1161
- 01:26:31,561 --> 01:26:33,529
- Johnny wants kids now.
- 1162
- 01:26:37,067 --> 01:26:38,819
- What's he gonna do with me?
- 1163
- 01:26:41,863 --> 01:26:43,115
- Well...
- 1164
- 01:26:44,533 --> 01:26:46,535
- Mr. Johnny just gonna have
- to get over it.
- 1165
- 01:26:49,079 --> 01:26:51,127
- He doesn't know about the baby.
- 1166
- 01:26:55,335 --> 01:26:57,212
- Or the two before.
- 1167
- 01:27:52,100 --> 01:27:53,443
- Yule Mae Davis?
- 1168
- 01:27:56,354 --> 01:27:58,652
- - What do you want me to do?
- - You're under arrest.
- 1169
- 01:27:59,858 --> 01:28:03,203
- Just call my husband.
- Just call my husband.
- 1170
- 01:28:06,907 --> 01:28:10,207
- - Wait a minute. I want my purse.
- - No, you're under arrest.
- 1171
- 01:28:10,368 --> 01:28:14,168
- I want to get my purse.
- I want to get my purse! Aibee!
- 1172
- 01:28:14,956 --> 01:28:17,129
- - Don't fight, Yule Mae!
- - Aibee!
- 1173
- 01:28:17,292 --> 01:28:21,388
- Aibee, I want my purse! I want my purse!
- 1174
- 01:28:25,300 --> 01:28:27,223
- Just let me go!
- 1175
- 01:28:28,011 --> 01:28:30,264
- Yule Mae, don't fight.
- 1176
- 01:28:38,814 --> 01:28:41,943
- I knew she was a thief
- the day she started.
- 1177
- 01:28:42,776 --> 01:28:46,952
- A nigra walks into a pawn shop
- with a ring of such size and color.
- 1178
- 01:28:48,281 --> 01:28:51,376
- It took them all of ten minutes
- to find out where she worked.
- 1179
- 01:28:53,411 --> 01:28:55,709
- I am desperate for
- a grilled cheese sandwich.
- 1180
- 01:28:55,872 --> 01:28:58,295
- Are you? Are you?
- Do you want a grilled cheese sandwich?
- 1181
- 01:28:58,458 --> 01:29:00,131
- Oh, yes.
- 1182
- 01:29:00,293 --> 01:29:02,045
- Just go sit down over there.
- 1183
- 01:29:08,718 --> 01:29:13,098
- Miss Skeeter, you best head on over
- to Miss Aibileen's house.
- 1184
- 01:29:13,890 --> 01:29:14,891
- Now.
- 1185
- 01:29:45,380 --> 01:29:47,553
- I'm gonna help with your stories.
- 1186
- 01:29:48,925 --> 01:29:51,269
- I'm gonna help, too. Mm-hm.
- 1187
- 01:29:53,138 --> 01:29:54,310
- We all are.
- 1188
- 01:29:54,472 --> 01:29:57,442
- - That's right.
- - I'll help you.
- 1189
- 01:29:58,810 --> 01:30:01,279
- I used to take
- a shortcut every day
- 1190
- 01:30:01,438 --> 01:30:04,157
- when I went to work
- at Dr. Dixon's house.
- 1191
- 01:30:04,816 --> 01:30:07,865
- Cut through that farmer's lower 40
- to get there.
- 1192
- 01:30:08,028 --> 01:30:11,874
- One day this farmer
- was waiting for me with a gun.
- 1193
- 01:30:12,032 --> 01:30:15,627
- Said he'd shoot me dead
- if I walked on his land again.
- 1194
- 01:30:16,328 --> 01:30:22,051
- Dr. Dixon went and paid that farmer
- double for two of those acres.
- 1195
- 01:30:22,584 --> 01:30:25,428
- Told him he was gonna
- start farming, too.
- 1196
- 01:30:26,379 --> 01:30:31,055
- But he bought that just for me,
- so I could get to work easy.
- 1197
- 01:30:32,344 --> 01:30:33,561
- He did.
- 1198
- 01:30:33,720 --> 01:30:36,769
- I worked for Miss Jolene's mother
- till the day she died.
- 1199
- 01:30:37,641 --> 01:30:41,145
- Then her daughter, Miss Nancy,
- asked me to come and work for her.
- 1200
- 01:30:42,228 --> 01:30:44,526
- Miss Nancy is a real sweet lady.
- 1201
- 01:30:45,523 --> 01:30:49,903
- But Miss Jolene's ma done put it in her
- will I got to work for Miss Jolene.
- 1202
- 01:30:50,946 --> 01:30:53,790
- Miss Jolene's a mean woman.
- 1203
- 01:30:53,949 --> 01:30:55,496
- Mean for sport.
- 1204
- 01:30:57,827 --> 01:31:00,501
- Lord, I tried to find another job.
- 1205
- 01:31:01,581 --> 01:31:03,709
- But in everybody's mind
- 1206
- 01:31:03,875 --> 01:31:07,254
- the French family
- and Miss Jolene owned me.
- 1207
- 01:31:09,422 --> 01:31:10,765
- Owned me.
- 1208
- 01:31:16,513 --> 01:31:18,311
- I leave early
- this week for Thanksgiving.
- 1209
- 01:31:18,473 --> 01:31:21,272
- Our last editors' meeting
- is December 17th,
- 1210
- 01:31:21,434 --> 01:31:23,186
- so if you want a prayer
- of this getting read,
- 1211
- 01:31:23,353 --> 01:31:26,357
- - I'd better have it by then.
- - That's in three weeks, Miss Stein.
- 1212
- 01:31:26,523 --> 01:31:29,026
- Well, otherwise it goes in the pile.
- 1213
- 01:31:29,192 --> 01:31:31,991
- You do not want it in the pile.
- 1214
- 01:31:32,153 --> 01:31:33,245
- Yes, ma'am.
- 1215
- 01:31:33,405 --> 01:31:36,750
- And put something personal in there.
- Write about the maid who raised you.
- 1216
- 01:31:38,118 --> 01:31:39,461
- I understand.
- 1217
- 01:31:47,127 --> 01:31:49,926
- Well, we have a lot of work to do
- before the benefit, don't we?
- 1218
- 01:31:50,088 --> 01:31:53,092
- I know, but I think We're on track.
- We're doing quite well.
- 1219
- 01:32:01,433 --> 01:32:02,935
- - it's so good.
- - Mm-hm.
- 1220
- 01:32:03,101 --> 01:32:04,944
- - Who's there?
- - I don't know.
- 1221
- 01:32:05,729 --> 01:32:06,730
- Aibileen?
- 1222
- 01:32:09,232 --> 01:32:10,825
- Hey, Elizabeth!
- 1223
- 01:32:10,984 --> 01:32:13,328
- It's me, Celia Foote.
- 1224
- 01:32:15,447 --> 01:32:18,917
- I was in the neighborhood.
- Thought I'd drop by.
- 1225
- 01:32:20,577 --> 01:32:23,296
- Everybody hide.
- Everybody get down, get down.
- 1226
- 01:32:24,205 --> 01:32:26,458
- Get down! Get down! Get down!
- 1227
- 01:32:29,669 --> 01:32:31,592
- - Turn off the music.
- - Who are we hiding from?
- 1228
- 01:32:31,755 --> 01:32:33,598
- Shh!
- 1229
- 01:32:36,926 --> 01:32:39,679
- Hey!
- 1230
- 01:32:39,846 --> 01:32:40,893
- Shh!
- 1231
- 01:32:44,809 --> 01:32:46,152
- I brought a chocolate pie!
- 1232
- 01:32:48,480 --> 01:32:50,733
- My maid, Minny, made it.
- 1233
- 01:32:58,073 --> 01:33:00,326
- She's in the bushes.
- 1234
- 01:33:22,138 --> 01:33:26,894
- Don't be taking those women
- any more pies, you understand?
- 1235
- 01:33:35,193 --> 01:33:38,618
- They made me stand there like I was
- the vacuum salesman.
- 1236
- 01:33:40,698 --> 01:33:41,870
- Why, Minny?
- 1237
- 01:33:43,993 --> 01:33:47,873
- Because they know about you getting
- knocked up by Mr. Johnny.
- 1238
- 01:33:48,039 --> 01:33:49,962
- Mad you married one of their mens.
- 1239
- 01:33:50,792 --> 01:33:54,717
- And especially since Miss Hilly and
- Mr. Johnny had just broke up, too.
- 1240
- 01:33:54,879 --> 01:33:57,428
- Hilly probably thinks that I was
- fooling around with Johnny
- 1241
- 01:33:57,590 --> 01:33:59,263
- when they were still going steady.
- 1242
- 01:33:59,425 --> 01:34:01,519
- Mm-hm.
- 1243
- 01:34:01,678 --> 01:34:05,933
- And Missus Walters always said Miss
- Hilly still sweet on Mr. Johnny, too.
- 1244
- 01:34:07,809 --> 01:34:09,311
- No wonder!
- 1245
- 01:34:12,313 --> 01:34:16,489
- They don't hate me.
- They hate what they think I did.
- 1246
- 01:34:17,360 --> 01:34:20,034
- They hate you 'cause they think
- you white trash.
- 1247
- 01:34:20,196 --> 01:34:23,120
- I'm just going to have to tell Hilly
- I ain't no boyfriend stealer.
- 1248
- 01:34:24,742 --> 01:34:27,541
- In fact, I'll tell her Friday night
- at the benefit.
- 1249
- 01:34:28,663 --> 01:34:30,961
- You don't need to be going
- to that benefit, Miss Celia.
- 1250
- 01:34:33,126 --> 01:34:35,720
- Did you hear me? You just stay home.
- 1251
- 01:34:39,841 --> 01:34:41,013
- That looks bad.
- 1252
- 01:34:43,386 --> 01:34:44,729
- Let me take a look.
- 1253
- 01:34:45,597 --> 01:34:47,270
- I got to get these peas on.
- 1254
- 01:34:47,432 --> 01:34:50,185
- I know you didn't fall
- in no tub, Minny.
- 1255
- 01:35:11,456 --> 01:35:14,005
- You know what I'd do if I were you?
- 1256
- 01:35:15,752 --> 01:35:17,846
- I'd give it right back to him.
- 1257
- 01:35:19,380 --> 01:35:22,259
- I'd hit him over the head
- with a skillet,
- 1258
- 01:35:22,425 --> 01:35:25,178
- and I'd tell him, "Go straight to hell."
- 1259
- 01:35:35,605 --> 01:35:37,949
- From here, the members of the family...
- 1260
- 01:35:41,319 --> 01:35:44,664
- ...visitors from foreign countries
- and others
- 1261
- 01:35:44,822 --> 01:35:47,826
- will walk to St. Matthew's Cathedral.
- 1262
- 01:35:54,374 --> 01:35:57,173
- Senator Edward Kennedy
- getting out of the car.
- 1263
- 01:35:59,212 --> 01:36:00,555
- Mrs. Kennedy.
- 1264
- 01:36:01,965 --> 01:36:03,967
- Robert Kennedy, Attorney General.
- 1265
- 01:36:04,133 --> 01:36:06,227
- Sweetheart, I gotta
- get down to the coast.
- 1266
- 01:36:07,512 --> 01:36:09,139
- I'll be back in time for the benefit.
- 1267
- 01:36:21,442 --> 01:36:23,865
- The world done gone crazy,
- Miss Skeeter, and I'm scared.
- 1268
- 01:36:24,612 --> 01:36:27,866
- What if people ind out what we writing,
- figure out Niceville really Jackson,
- 1269
- 01:36:28,032 --> 01:36:29,375
- figure out who who?
- 1270
- 01:36:32,578 --> 01:36:34,501
- Maybe we need us some insurance.
- 1271
- 01:36:37,000 --> 01:36:40,470
- I told God I'd never speak of it again.
- 1272
- 01:36:41,671 --> 01:36:43,469
- But we ain't got no choice.
- 1273
- 01:36:44,966 --> 01:36:45,967
- Sorry.
- 1274
- 01:36:47,093 --> 01:36:50,973
- I need to tell y'all about the terrible
- awful I done to Miss Hilly.
- 1275
- 01:36:52,473 --> 01:36:54,601
- It might be the only thing
- that keep us safe.
- 1276
- 01:36:59,522 --> 01:37:01,069
- Mmm.
- 1277
- 01:37:01,232 --> 01:37:03,200
- Mm-mm-mm.
- 1278
- 01:37:06,571 --> 01:37:07,823
- So...
- 1279
- 01:37:09,657 --> 01:37:12,501
- Nobody wanted to hire a sass-mouthing,
- thieving nigra.
- 1280
- 01:37:15,371 --> 01:37:16,543
- Did they?
- 1281
- 01:37:23,921 --> 01:37:26,515
- Oh. Pie's as good as always, Minny.
- 1282
- 01:37:26,674 --> 01:37:27,926
- I'm glad you like it.
- 1283
- 01:37:28,092 --> 01:37:29,469
- Mmm.
- 1284
- 01:37:31,095 --> 01:37:33,143
- Oh.
- 1285
- 01:37:33,306 --> 01:37:38,233
- If I take you back, I'll have to cut
- your pay five dollars a week.
- 1286
- 01:37:38,394 --> 01:37:39,862
- Take me back?
- 1287
- 01:37:42,357 --> 01:37:46,112
- What do you put in here
- that makes it taste so good?
- 1288
- 01:37:46,277 --> 01:37:49,030
- That good vanilla from Mexico...
- 1289
- 01:37:49,197 --> 01:37:51,825
- ...and something else real special.
- 1290
- 01:37:53,368 --> 01:37:54,620
- Mmm.
- 1291
- 01:37:54,786 --> 01:37:58,962
- No, no, no, Missus Walters.
- That's Miss Hilly's special pie.
- 1292
- 01:38:01,959 --> 01:38:03,381
- Mama can have a piece.
- 1293
- 01:38:05,380 --> 01:38:07,428
- Cut her one.
- 1294
- 01:38:09,217 --> 01:38:10,560
- Go get a plate.
- 1295
- 01:38:15,515 --> 01:38:16,732
- Eat my shit.
- 1296
- 01:38:20,978 --> 01:38:22,355
- What'd you say?
- 1297
- 01:38:22,939 --> 01:38:26,569
- I said, "Eat... my... shit."
- 1298
- 01:38:35,910 --> 01:38:37,503
- Have you lost your mind?
- 1299
- 01:38:39,163 --> 01:38:44,465
- No, ma'am, but you about to,
- 'cause you just did.
- 1300
- 01:38:45,169 --> 01:38:47,797
- Did what?
- 1301
- 01:39:08,860 --> 01:39:10,908
- And you didn't eat just one.
- 1302
- 01:39:11,070 --> 01:39:13,243
- You had two slices!
- 1303
- 01:39:23,332 --> 01:39:26,085
- Run, Minny, run!
- 1304
- 01:39:30,673 --> 01:39:32,266
- You trying to get yourself killed?
- 1305
- 01:39:32,425 --> 01:39:35,349
- No! I wasn't planning on telling.
- 1306
- 01:39:37,305 --> 01:39:39,148
- I just wanted to see her take a bite.
- 1307
- 01:39:40,433 --> 01:39:44,313
- Then I was gonna leave.
- Be done with her forever.
- 1308
- 01:39:45,521 --> 01:39:48,240
- Before I knew it, I had done
- told that woman what was in that pie!
- 1309
- 01:39:51,235 --> 01:39:53,112
- I done ask God to forgive me.
- 1310
- 01:39:55,114 --> 01:39:57,993
- But more for what happened
- to poor Miss Walters.
- 1311
- 01:40:00,036 --> 01:40:04,792
- Miss Hilly threw her in that
- nursing home... just for laughing.
- 1312
- 01:40:06,375 --> 01:40:08,093
- We can't put that story in the book.
- 1313
- 01:40:08,961 --> 01:40:10,338
- We ain't got no choice.
- 1314
- 01:40:11,047 --> 01:40:14,551
- Hilly Holbrook can't let nobody know
- that pie story about her.
- 1315
- 01:40:14,717 --> 01:40:16,845
- Exactly. If people find out
- the terrible awful
- 1316
- 01:40:17,011 --> 01:40:19,264
- was you and Miss Hilly
- we in trouble there ain't words for.
- 1317
- 01:40:19,430 --> 01:40:21,524
- Right! But don't you see?
- 1318
- 01:40:21,682 --> 01:40:24,982
- She gonna go to her grave convincing
- folks this book ain't about Jackson.
- 1319
- 01:40:25,144 --> 01:40:27,897
- Now, that keeps us safe. Insured.
- 1320
- 01:40:29,232 --> 01:40:30,609
- No.
- 1321
- 01:40:31,651 --> 01:40:32,994
- No, that's too dangerous.
- 1322
- 01:40:37,406 --> 01:40:40,785
- Y'all two brought me into this,
- but I'm gonna finish it.
- 1323
- 01:40:41,661 --> 01:40:45,006
- Either put it in, or pull my parts
- out altogether. Y'all pick!
- 1324
- 01:40:56,425 --> 01:40:59,395
- Thank you, Tommy. I should be out
- by 10:00. See you then.
- 1325
- 01:41:05,017 --> 01:41:08,692
- This is Jolene French, reporting from
- the African Children's Benefit Ball,
- 1326
- 01:41:08,854 --> 01:41:12,199
- and I'm here with League President,
- Miss Hilly Holbrook.
- 1327
- 01:41:12,358 --> 01:41:16,864
- Thanks, Jolene. And I'm just so excited
- for the auction tonight, aren't you?
- 1328
- 01:41:17,029 --> 01:41:18,997
- I'm absolutely thrilled.
- 1329
- 01:41:19,865 --> 01:41:21,458
- Scandalous!
- 1330
- 01:41:24,078 --> 01:41:25,079
- Thank you.
- 1331
- 01:41:34,880 --> 01:41:36,678
- Hi!
- 1332
- 01:41:43,681 --> 01:41:45,354
- Did you see what Miss Celia got on?
- 1333
- 01:41:45,516 --> 01:41:48,690
- Lord, have mercy. Women better hold onto
- their husbands tonight.
- 1334
- 01:41:50,146 --> 01:41:52,365
- Miss Leefolt been working on that dress
- for four weeks
- 1335
- 01:41:52,523 --> 01:41:53,649
- and that's what she came up with?
- 1336
- 01:41:53,816 --> 01:41:56,490
- Here.
- 1337
- 01:42:08,414 --> 01:42:09,586
- Kiss me.
- 1338
- 01:42:43,574 --> 01:42:45,542
- Everybody enjoying the evening?
- 1339
- 01:42:50,373 --> 01:42:53,377
- Let's give a nice round of applause
- for the help.
- 1340
- 01:42:57,129 --> 01:43:00,349
- For all the men and women who have
- helped make tonight possible.
- 1341
- 01:43:02,134 --> 01:43:04,978
- A cause I'm sure is dear
- to their hearts as well.
- 1342
- 01:43:07,431 --> 01:43:09,559
- - Your cocktail.
- - Thank you.
- 1343
- 01:43:11,185 --> 01:43:15,361
- Honey, don't you think
- you've had enough to drink?
- 1344
- 01:43:15,523 --> 01:43:17,241
- I wish you'd try and eat something.
- 1345
- 01:43:17,400 --> 01:43:19,619
- I'm not having my stomach poke out.
- 1346
- 01:43:23,531 --> 01:43:27,411
- OK, OK, everybody, quiet down.
- I got the list of the winners!
- 1347
- 01:43:29,537 --> 01:43:30,789
- OK.
- 1348
- 01:43:30,955 --> 01:43:35,711
- The winner of the beautiful
- mink car coat is...
- 1349
- 01:43:36,377 --> 01:43:37,594
- ...Charlotte Phelan!
- 1350
- 01:43:39,463 --> 01:43:41,215
- Congrats, Miss Phelan.
- 1351
- 01:43:41,382 --> 01:43:43,555
- Ladies, I hope
- your husbands take note of that.
- 1352
- 01:43:45,094 --> 01:43:48,519
- Now it's time for the baked goods.
- 1353
- 01:43:49,724 --> 01:43:51,647
- Ooh, yummy, yummy!
- 1354
- 01:43:51,809 --> 01:43:55,029
- The highest bid
- in baked goods goes to
- 1355
- 01:43:55,187 --> 01:43:58,031
- Minny Jackson's chocolate pie.
- 1356
- 01:43:59,817 --> 01:44:01,319
- Congratulations...
- 1357
- 01:44:01,986 --> 01:44:03,704
- ...Hilly Holbrook!
- 1358
- 01:44:04,071 --> 01:44:08,247
- - Oh! Hilly.
- - That's funny.
- 1359
- 01:44:08,409 --> 01:44:10,082
- I didn't bid on anything.
- 1360
- 01:44:10,244 --> 01:44:13,794
- All right. And now it's time
- for Danica's strawberry jam.
- 1361
- 01:44:13,956 --> 01:44:15,208
- Shh!
- 1362
- 01:44:17,918 --> 01:44:19,795
- Congratulations, Hilly!
- 1363
- 01:44:19,962 --> 01:44:23,091
- I didn't know you were a fan
- of Minny's pies.
- 1364
- 01:44:24,675 --> 01:44:27,144
- I've been wanting to talk to you
- all night.
- 1365
- 01:44:27,303 --> 01:44:29,271
- Minny said why you won't be my friend.
- 1366
- 01:44:29,430 --> 01:44:31,683
- It's 'cause you think me and Johnny
- went behind your back.
- 1367
- 01:44:33,350 --> 01:44:35,273
- Wait. I want to talk...
- 1368
- 01:44:35,436 --> 01:44:36,813
- Oh, no.
- 1369
- 01:44:36,979 --> 01:44:38,652
- I'm so sorry.
- 1370
- 01:44:41,859 --> 01:44:43,611
- Come here, sweetheart.
- 1371
- 01:44:43,778 --> 01:44:45,530
- Let me bring you back to your table.
- 1372
- 01:44:47,990 --> 01:44:50,459
- - I'm really sorry.
- - It's all right. Don't worry about it.
- 1373
- 01:44:51,744 --> 01:44:55,339
- What are you trying to do to me?
- What are you and that nigra up to?
- 1374
- 01:44:55,498 --> 01:44:57,171
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- 1375
- 01:44:57,333 --> 01:44:58,880
- You liar! Who did you tell?
- 1376
- 01:44:59,043 --> 01:45:01,341
- Hilly, I got pregnant
- after you and Johnny broke up!
- 1377
- 01:45:01,504 --> 01:45:04,178
- - Oh, shit!
- - Shut up, Mother!
- 1378
- 01:45:04,340 --> 01:45:07,765
- Johnny never cheated on you.
- 1379
- 01:45:08,677 --> 01:45:10,179
- At least not with me.
- 1380
- 01:45:10,346 --> 01:45:13,725
- Oh, Johnny would never cheat on me.
- 1381
- 01:45:13,891 --> 01:45:17,270
- I'm so sorry! I thought you'd be tickled
- you won that pie!
- 1382
- 01:45:18,145 --> 01:45:22,525
- You tell that nigra, if she tells
- anybody, I will make her suffer!
- 1383
- 01:45:22,691 --> 01:45:24,989
- Hey, that is enough.
- 1384
- 01:45:25,569 --> 01:45:26,570
- Celia.
- 1385
- 01:45:26,737 --> 01:45:28,239
- Hey, baby, what's the matter?
- 1386
- 01:45:28,405 --> 01:45:30,999
- - Oh!
- - Cel?
- 1387
- 01:45:32,034 --> 01:45:33,035
- Oh!
- 1388
- 01:45:34,662 --> 01:45:37,962
- Oh, shit. What a mess. Napkins.
- 1389
- 01:45:39,458 --> 01:45:42,132
- Why don't we get back to the auction?
- 1390
- 01:45:42,294 --> 01:45:45,218
- - Next up, Debby's peppermint bark.
- - Celia!
- 1391
- 01:45:45,798 --> 01:45:47,846
- It goes great with hot cocoa.
- 1392
- 01:45:53,722 --> 01:45:55,941
- Oh, just come on home with us
- tonight, Mother.
- 1393
- 01:45:56,100 --> 01:45:59,354
- No, thanks. I've got a pie to eat.
- 1394
- 01:45:59,520 --> 01:46:01,943
- You throw that pie away right now.
- 1395
- 01:46:02,106 --> 01:46:04,234
- I spent good money on this pie.
- 1396
- 01:46:05,150 --> 01:46:06,948
- I won it just for you.
- 1397
- 01:46:07,111 --> 01:46:09,239
- You signed me up?
- 1398
- 01:46:09,405 --> 01:46:13,455
- I may have trouble remembering my own
- name, or what country I live in,
- 1399
- 01:46:13,617 --> 01:46:16,040
- but there are two things
- I can't seem to forget:
- 1400
- 01:46:16,203 --> 01:46:19,753
- that my own daughter
- threw me into a nursing home,
- 1401
- 01:46:19,915 --> 01:46:21,917
- and that she ate Minny's shit.
- 1402
- 01:46:23,002 --> 01:46:24,174
- Good night.
- 1403
- 01:46:28,382 --> 01:46:31,852
- - Hey, how about a nightcap?
- - Let's go.
- 1404
- 01:46:38,976 --> 01:46:42,150
- I'm not right for this
- kind of life, Minny.
- 1405
- 01:46:44,023 --> 01:46:47,197
- I don't need a dining room table
- for 12 people.
- 1406
- 01:46:48,027 --> 01:46:51,406
- I couldn't get two people
- over here if I begged.
- 1407
- 01:46:55,701 --> 01:46:58,045
- I can't do this to Johnny any more.
- 1408
- 01:47:00,456 --> 01:47:02,754
- That's why I've gotta go back
- to Sugar Ditch.
- 1409
- 01:47:04,460 --> 01:47:06,679
- You can't move back to Sugar Ditch.
- 1410
- 01:47:08,923 --> 01:47:10,971
- Lord.
- 1411
- 01:47:11,634 --> 01:47:13,932
- I reckon it's time you knew.
- 1412
- 01:47:14,094 --> 01:47:15,266
- Sit down.
- 1413
- 01:47:25,981 --> 01:47:29,030
- So Miss Hilly thought you knew about
- the terrible awful.
- 1414
- 01:47:30,319 --> 01:47:32,321
- That you was making fun of her.
- 1415
- 01:47:35,324 --> 01:47:37,873
- It's my fault she pounced on you.
- 1416
- 01:47:40,371 --> 01:47:42,373
- If you leave Mr. Johnny...
- 1417
- 01:47:44,708 --> 01:47:47,803
- ...then Miss Hilly done won
- the whole ball game.
- 1418
- 01:47:49,964 --> 01:47:51,807
- Then she done beaten me...
- 1419
- 01:47:53,217 --> 01:47:55,311
- ...and she done beat you.
- 1420
- 01:48:02,351 --> 01:48:04,900
- Thank you for telling me that.
- 1421
- 01:48:12,403 --> 01:48:16,033
- Lord, look at all these pages. 266.
- 1422
- 01:48:16,490 --> 01:48:18,367
- Mm-mm!
- 1423
- 01:48:19,618 --> 01:48:22,497
- So we just send it off?
- Just wait and see?
- 1424
- 01:48:22,663 --> 01:48:24,381
- Hope Miss Stein gonna publish it?
- 1425
- 01:48:24,540 --> 01:48:28,670
- Well, I have one more story to type
- before I put it in the mail,
- 1426
- 01:48:28,836 --> 01:48:30,338
- but other than that, we're done.
- 1427
- 01:48:30,504 --> 01:48:32,097
- Which one you got left?
- 1428
- 01:48:34,591 --> 01:48:35,763
- Uh, mine.
- 1429
- 01:48:46,395 --> 01:48:48,864
- I need to talk to you about Constantine.
- 1430
- 01:48:49,356 --> 01:48:53,361
- Oh, Eugenia, that was so long ago.
- 1431
- 01:48:53,902 --> 01:48:55,074
- What happened?
- 1432
- 01:48:55,237 --> 01:48:57,615
- Oh.
- 1433
- 01:48:58,407 --> 01:49:00,250
- What happened?
- 1434
- 01:49:04,997 --> 01:49:07,125
- She didn't give me a choice.
- 1435
- 01:49:12,254 --> 01:49:17,181
- The Daughters of America had just
- appointed me state regent.
- 1436
- 01:49:19,970 --> 01:49:23,315
- Grace Higginbotham, our esteemed
- president, came all the way down
- 1437
- 01:49:23,474 --> 01:49:27,445
- from Washington, D.C.,
- to our house for the ceremony.
- 1438
- 01:49:29,063 --> 01:49:33,068
- That's just beautiful. Look at that.
- 1439
- 01:49:36,570 --> 01:49:40,291
- She'd gotten so old and slow, Skeeter.
- 1440
- 01:49:43,994 --> 01:49:45,211
- Yes, ma'am.
- 1441
- 01:49:47,873 --> 01:49:51,298
- It's such an honor
- that you came all this way.
- 1442
- 01:50:00,010 --> 01:50:01,057
- That's all right.
- 1443
- 01:50:05,891 --> 01:50:08,565
- - Hello, Miss Charlotte.
- - Rachel.
- 1444
- 01:50:10,604 --> 01:50:12,732
- We were expecting you next week.
- 1445
- 01:50:12,898 --> 01:50:14,696
- I decided to come early
- and surprise Mama.
- 1446
- 01:50:14,858 --> 01:50:16,781
- Oh.
- 1447
- 01:50:17,820 --> 01:50:19,197
- I'm entertaining.
- 1448
- 01:50:19,363 --> 01:50:21,741
- Why don't you go around back.
- Wait in the kitchen.
- 1449
- 01:50:27,412 --> 01:50:28,709
- Go on now.
- 1450
- 01:50:31,875 --> 01:50:33,377
- I am sorry.
- 1451
- 01:50:36,338 --> 01:50:38,966
- Rachel, what are you doing?
- 1452
- 01:50:39,133 --> 01:50:42,387
- I'm just doing as I was told,
- Miss Charlotte.
- 1453
- 01:50:42,553 --> 01:50:44,055
- Going to the kitchen.
- 1454
- 01:50:44,221 --> 01:50:46,315
- But I'm going to see my mama first.
- 1455
- 01:50:47,766 --> 01:50:50,519
- Hello, Mama.
- 1456
- 01:50:50,686 --> 01:50:53,405
- Go on to the kitchen, baby.
- I'll be there directly.
- 1457
- 01:50:53,564 --> 01:50:57,740
- You may put up with this kind
- of nonsense, but I do not.
- 1458
- 01:51:04,449 --> 01:51:05,996
- Get out of this house, Rachel.
- 1459
- 01:51:10,122 --> 01:51:12,500
- You heard her. Go on, girl.
- 1460
- 01:51:12,666 --> 01:51:16,796
- Miss Charlotte, let me take her to
- the kitchen. Come on, baby. Let's go.
- 1461
- 01:51:18,672 --> 01:51:20,094
- Charlotte.
- 1462
- 01:51:24,511 --> 01:51:26,434
- Both of you.
- 1463
- 01:51:26,597 --> 01:51:29,225
- Leave. Now.
- 1464
- 01:51:33,395 --> 01:51:34,738
- Come on, Mama.
- 1465
- 01:52:07,262 --> 01:52:08,809
- Come on now.
- 1466
- 01:52:22,444 --> 01:52:24,947
- Constantine didn't do anything wrong.
- 1467
- 01:52:26,657 --> 01:52:28,580
- And you love Rachel. I know you do.
- 1468
- 01:52:28,742 --> 01:52:31,916
- She was our president.
- What was I supposed to do?
- 1469
- 01:52:32,913 --> 01:52:37,259
- She did you the biggest favor of
- your life. She taught me everything.
- 1470
- 01:52:37,417 --> 01:52:40,591
- Well, you idolized her too much.
- You always have.
- 1471
- 01:52:40,754 --> 01:52:42,882
- I needed someone to look up to.
- 1472
- 01:52:46,301 --> 01:52:47,678
- Well, I...
- 1473
- 01:52:48,512 --> 01:52:52,187
- I went to her house the next day,
- but she had already gone.
- 1474
- 01:53:22,921 --> 01:53:24,468
- How could you not tell me all this?
- 1475
- 01:53:24,631 --> 01:53:28,135
- Because I didn't want to upset you
- during your final exams.
- 1476
- 01:53:28,302 --> 01:53:31,021
- I knew you'd blame me,
- and it wasn't my fault!
- 1477
- 01:53:31,179 --> 01:53:32,772
- I have to go find her. She needs me.
- 1478
- 01:53:32,931 --> 01:53:34,228
- - Eugenia.
- - What?
- 1479
- 01:53:36,143 --> 01:53:39,613
- We sent your brother up to Chicago
- to bring Constantine home.
- 1480
- 01:53:48,530 --> 01:53:49,952
- When he got there...
- 1481
- 01:53:54,036 --> 01:53:55,583
- ...she had died.
- 1482
- 01:54:11,720 --> 01:54:13,814
- You broke her heart.
- 1483
- 01:54:19,394 --> 01:54:24,321
- - I'm...
- - I'm sorry. I'm so sorry!
- 1484
- 01:54:27,402 --> 01:54:29,029
- I'm sorry.
- 1485
- 01:55:24,835 --> 01:55:26,803
- They printed a few thousand copies
- 1486
- 01:55:26,962 --> 01:55:30,307
- with the worst advance Miss Stein
- had ever seen.
- 1487
- 01:55:30,465 --> 01:55:33,093
- Baby, what you doing with Alicia book?
- You can't read.
- 1488
- 01:55:34,177 --> 01:55:39,525
- They sent Miss Skeeter $600. She broke
- that money up and gave it to each of us.
- 1489
- 01:55:40,350 --> 01:55:45,277
- Divided 13 ways,
- that came to about $46 each.
- 1490
- 01:55:51,361 --> 01:55:52,704
- Y'all finish your homework.
- 1491
- 01:55:57,868 --> 01:56:00,462
- Aibileen. Aibileen!
- 1492
- 01:56:01,288 --> 01:56:03,962
- We just got this from Miss Skeeter.
- Look at it.
- 1493
- 01:56:04,124 --> 01:56:05,671
- Look at it.
- 1494
- 01:56:05,834 --> 01:56:07,552
- Look at it!
- 1495
- 01:56:07,711 --> 01:56:09,679
- Minny, we're rich!
- 1496
- 01:56:11,590 --> 01:56:15,060
- "She fired me
- for using her inside toilet.
- 1497
- 01:56:15,218 --> 01:56:19,974
- Put me out in a storm and told me never
- to come back. But I did come back.
- 1498
- 01:56:20,140 --> 01:56:24,316
- I came back with a pie I had baked
- to say I'm sorry.
- 1499
- 01:56:25,353 --> 01:56:26,696
- I watched her eat..."
- 1500
- 01:56:37,073 --> 01:56:39,246
- Well, it's a wonderful book, Hilly.
- 1501
- 01:56:39,409 --> 01:56:43,334
- Filled with gripping testimonials
- from Mississippi's housekeepers.
- 1502
- 01:56:44,164 --> 01:56:46,007
- OK, Mama. I need to run.
- 1503
- 01:56:46,166 --> 01:56:50,967
- Well. You should read the book, Hilly.
- It's quite scandalous.
- 1504
- 01:56:51,129 --> 01:56:54,724
- Sounds like... Jackson, if you ask me.
- 1505
- 01:56:55,217 --> 01:56:56,560
- Quite scandalous.
- 1506
- 01:56:57,886 --> 01:56:59,138
- What book?
- 1507
- 01:56:59,304 --> 01:57:00,521
- What's it called again?
- 1508
- 01:57:00,764 --> 01:57:01,765
- Uh...
- 1509
- 01:57:02,098 --> 01:57:04,817
- The Help. H-E-L-P.
- 1510
- 01:57:32,587 --> 01:57:33,930
- There it is.
- 1511
- 01:57:42,264 --> 01:57:43,732
- You told me to write something good.
- 1512
- 01:57:43,890 --> 01:57:46,063
- - Something I believed in.
- - It's not what I believe in.
- 1513
- 01:57:46,226 --> 01:57:49,070
- That joke you pulled with Hilly
- with the toilets, that's funny.
- 1514
- 01:57:50,605 --> 01:57:52,573
- Why would you do this to us?
- 1515
- 01:57:53,567 --> 01:57:55,160
- I don't even know why you care.
- 1516
- 01:57:55,318 --> 01:57:58,162
- - What?
- - Things are fine around here.
- 1517
- 01:57:58,321 --> 01:57:59,743
- Why go stir up trouble?
- 1518
- 01:57:59,906 --> 01:58:02,284
- Trouble's already here, Stuart.
- 1519
- 01:58:02,450 --> 01:58:04,418
- I had to tell you this.
- You needed to know.
- 1520
- 01:58:04,578 --> 01:58:07,457
- Goddamn right I needed to know. You
- should have told me this from the start.
- 1521
- 01:58:12,252 --> 01:58:13,879
- You're a selfish woman, Skeeter.
- 1522
- 01:58:15,755 --> 01:58:16,802
- Stuart.
- 1523
- 01:58:16,965 --> 01:58:19,093
- I think you're better off being alone.
- 1524
- 01:59:07,265 --> 01:59:08,812
- Yeah.
- 1525
- 01:59:08,975 --> 01:59:11,728
- Did you get to that part yet
- that I was telling you about?
- 1526
- 01:59:11,895 --> 01:59:13,772
- Don't read ahead, whatever you do.
- 1527
- 01:59:13,938 --> 01:59:16,236
- "What you done put up in this?"
- 1528
- 01:59:16,399 --> 01:59:19,778
- "She Said, 'My Shit."'
- 1529
- 01:59:34,668 --> 01:59:36,215
- What's the matter, Hilly?
- 1530
- 01:59:37,712 --> 01:59:41,467
- - Get off of me! Get off!
- - Ouch! Stop hitting me!
- 1531
- 01:59:43,593 --> 01:59:46,221
- I heard that Betty character
- might be Mary Elizabeth.
- 1532
- 01:59:46,388 --> 01:59:48,766
- It's not Jackson.
- 1533
- 01:59:48,932 --> 01:59:53,312
- And that book is garbage. I bet the
- whole thing is made up by some nigra.
- 1534
- 01:59:53,478 --> 01:59:55,401
- And Jolene, didn't your mama
- 1535
- 01:59:55,563 --> 01:59:57,565
- leave Cora to you in her will?
- 1536
- 01:59:57,732 --> 02:00:01,657
- Yes, but that's not odd, is it?
- Happens all the time, right?
- 1537
- 02:00:01,820 --> 02:00:04,539
- The book is not about Jackson.
- 1538
- 02:01:29,449 --> 02:01:30,951
- What the hell?
- 1539
- 02:01:32,285 --> 02:01:33,787
- What are you doing here?
- 1540
- 02:01:35,663 --> 02:01:37,916
- I've contacted my lawyer.
- 1541
- 02:01:38,082 --> 02:01:40,710
- Hibbie Goodman? He's the best
- libel attorney in the state.
- 1542
- 02:01:40,877 --> 02:01:42,504
- Oh, Missy, you're going to jail.
- 1543
- 02:01:42,670 --> 02:01:44,422
- You can't prove anything.
- 1544
- 02:01:44,589 --> 02:01:47,934
- Oh, I 100 percent know you wrote it.
- Nobody else in town is as tacky as you.
- 1545
- 02:01:48,092 --> 02:01:49,969
- You don't know anything, Hilly.
- 1546
- 02:01:50,136 --> 02:01:51,638
- Oh, I don't, do I?
- 1547
- 02:01:52,305 --> 02:01:55,354
- You tell Aibileen the next time
- she wants to write
- 1548
- 02:01:55,517 --> 02:01:58,396
- about my dear friend Elizabeth...
- 1549
- 02:01:58,561 --> 02:02:02,486
- Uh-huh.
- Remember her? Had you in her wedding.
- 1550
- 02:02:02,649 --> 02:02:05,869
- Let's just say Aibileen ought to have
- been a little bit smarter
- 1551
- 02:02:06,027 --> 02:02:08,701
- before putting in about that
- L-shaped scratch
- 1552
- 02:02:08,863 --> 02:02:11,537
- in poor Elizabeth's dining table.
- 1553
- 02:02:13,618 --> 02:02:17,418
- And that nigger Minny,
- do I have plans for her.
- 1554
- 02:02:18,081 --> 02:02:22,882
- Careful, Hilly. That's chapter 12.
- 1555
- 02:02:23,044 --> 02:02:25,217
- Don't give yourself away now.
- 1556
- 02:02:25,672 --> 02:02:27,299
- That was not me!
- 1557
- 02:02:28,216 --> 02:02:30,389
- I've come to tell your mother
- what a hippie you've become.
- 1558
- 02:02:30,552 --> 02:02:32,600
- She's going to be disgusted by you.
- 1559
- 02:02:32,762 --> 02:02:36,392
- Why, Hilly. Is everything OK, you two?
- 1560
- 02:02:36,558 --> 02:02:37,559
- Oh, Mrs. Phelan.
- 1561
- 02:02:37,725 --> 02:02:41,605
- Hilly, you're a sweaty mess.
- Are you ill?
- 1562
- 02:02:42,480 --> 02:02:43,481
- No, ma'am.
- 1563
- 02:02:43,648 --> 02:02:48,620
- Darling, oh, no husband wants
- to come home and see that.
- 1564
- 02:02:48,945 --> 02:02:50,572
- Oh.
- 1565
- 02:02:50,738 --> 02:02:52,206
- I didn't have time to get fixed up.
- 1566
- 02:02:52,365 --> 02:02:54,333
- You know, Hilly, if I didn't
- know any better,
- 1567
- 02:02:54,492 --> 02:02:58,167
- I'd say you've been eating too much pie.
- 1568
- 02:03:02,625 --> 02:03:05,925
- Mrs. Phelan, I came here...
- 1569
- 02:03:06,087 --> 02:03:08,590
- In fact, I'm sure of it.
- 1570
- 02:03:08,756 --> 02:03:10,975
- Now you get your raggedy ass
- off my porch.
- 1571
- 02:03:11,634 --> 02:03:13,511
- Go on.
- 1572
- 02:03:13,678 --> 02:03:16,773
- Get off my property. Now!
- 1573
- 02:03:17,849 --> 02:03:21,103
- Before we all get one of those
- disgusting things on our lips!
- 1574
- 02:03:36,451 --> 02:03:39,705
- Eugenia. Take me inside, please.
- 1575
- 02:03:40,830 --> 02:03:41,831
- Yes, ma'am.
- 1576
- 02:03:57,472 --> 02:04:00,476
- Skeeter, do you have plans tomorrow?
- 1577
- 02:04:01,184 --> 02:04:02,811
- - No, ma'am.
- - Good.
- 1578
- 02:04:04,520 --> 02:04:07,023
- Because we are going shopping.
- 1579
- 02:04:08,942 --> 02:04:11,411
- No single daughter of mine is
- going to New York City
- 1580
- 02:04:11,569 --> 02:04:13,162
- representing the great state
- of Mississippi
- 1581
- 02:04:13,321 --> 02:04:15,744
- without a proper cosmopolitan wardrobe.
- 1582
- 02:04:15,907 --> 02:04:17,284
- How do you know about New York?
- 1583
- 02:04:17,450 --> 02:04:20,249
- Oh, well, Miss Stein called last night.
- 1584
- 02:04:27,961 --> 02:04:30,885
- Courage sometimes skips a generation.
- 1585
- 02:04:33,841 --> 02:04:36,640
- Thank you for bringing it back
- to our family.
- 1586
- 02:04:45,937 --> 02:04:48,065
- I can't leave you like this.
- 1587
- 02:04:48,564 --> 02:04:51,693
- Eugenia, I have made a decision.
- 1588
- 02:04:51,859 --> 02:04:54,328
- My health's been on the uptick
- these last few weeks,
- 1589
- 02:04:54,487 --> 02:04:57,661
- and I know the doctor says it's
- some kind of last strength nonsense,
- 1590
- 02:04:57,824 --> 02:05:02,250
- but I have decided not to die.
- 1591
- 02:05:07,750 --> 02:05:08,922
- Oh, Mama.
- 1592
- 02:05:09,085 --> 02:05:10,803
- It's too late.
- I tried calling Fanny Mae's
- 1593
- 02:05:10,962 --> 02:05:13,215
- to make all your hair appointments
- for the next 20 years,
- 1594
- 02:05:13,381 --> 02:05:15,804
- but they wouldn't allow it.
- 1595
- 02:05:18,094 --> 02:05:22,565
- I have never been more proud of you.
- 1596
- 02:05:27,478 --> 02:05:29,196
- Thank you.
- 1597
- 02:05:37,822 --> 02:05:39,199
- Mama.
- 1598
- 02:06:07,393 --> 02:06:08,895
- Need some help with those?
- 1599
- 02:06:11,064 --> 02:06:12,281
- Minny.
- 1600
- 02:06:12,440 --> 02:06:14,317
- - Miss Celia!
- - Minny, hey, stop! Minny!
- 1601
- 02:06:14,484 --> 02:06:16,111
- - Miss Celia!
- - Minny!
- 1602
- 02:06:16,277 --> 02:06:20,157
- - Stay back!
- - I'm not here to hurt you! Girl...
- 1603
- 02:06:22,075 --> 02:06:23,748
- You gonna put the stick down?
- 1604
- 02:06:23,910 --> 02:06:25,628
- Uh-uh.
- 1605
- 02:06:28,289 --> 02:06:31,839
- Listen, Celia finally told me
- about the babies.
- 1606
- 02:06:33,044 --> 02:06:34,387
- All of them.
- 1607
- 02:06:36,172 --> 02:06:39,847
- But I also know, the minute
- you started working here,
- 1608
- 02:06:40,009 --> 02:06:41,852
- she started getting better.
- 1609
- 02:06:42,970 --> 02:06:44,813
- So, you saved her life.
- 1610
- 02:06:48,267 --> 02:06:50,986
- You knew I was here the whole time?
- 1611
- 02:06:51,145 --> 02:06:54,445
- Fried chicken and okra
- on the first night?
- 1612
- 02:06:55,650 --> 02:06:58,153
- Y'all could have at least put
- some cornpone on the table.
- 1613
- 02:07:00,863 --> 02:07:02,035
- No.
- 1614
- 02:07:03,699 --> 02:07:06,043
- I couldn't let you eat no more cornpone,
- Mr. Johnny.
- 1615
- 02:07:06,202 --> 02:07:09,046
- Thanks to you, now I've had to let out
- every pair of pants I own.
- 1616
- 02:07:17,046 --> 02:07:19,390
- You just leave that.
- 1617
- 02:07:20,049 --> 02:07:21,392
- Here you go.
- 1618
- 02:07:22,385 --> 02:07:24,058
- Let's head on up the house.
- 1619
- 02:07:48,744 --> 02:07:49,836
- What's this?
- 1620
- 02:07:50,705 --> 02:07:52,378
- I cooked it all by myself.
- 1621
- 02:07:52,540 --> 02:07:55,134
- - Yes, she did.
- - She was up all night.
- 1622
- 02:07:56,752 --> 02:07:58,846
- I wanted to do something special.
- 1623
- 02:08:00,089 --> 02:08:02,217
- I wanted to say thank you.
- 1624
- 02:08:05,386 --> 02:08:06,387
- So...
- 1625
- 02:08:07,430 --> 02:08:09,023
- ...I ain't losing my job?
- 1626
- 02:08:11,017 --> 02:08:14,692
- No, you got a job here
- for the rest of your life.
- 1627
- 02:08:14,854 --> 02:08:16,071
- If you want it.
- 1628
- 02:08:22,445 --> 02:08:24,539
- That's a mile-high meringue, Miss Celia.
- 1629
- 02:08:33,998 --> 02:08:36,251
- - Please.
- - Thank you.
- 1630
- 02:08:40,254 --> 02:08:42,177
- Ooh.
- 1631
- 02:08:42,340 --> 02:08:43,808
- You remember to check the thighs?
- 1632
- 02:08:43,966 --> 02:08:47,561
- - Mm-hm. Cooked clean through.
- - Ain't pink in the middle?
- 1633
- 02:08:47,720 --> 02:08:50,894
- Uh-uh. Just the way you taught me.
- 1634
- 02:08:51,057 --> 02:08:52,934
- Looky here.
- 1635
- 02:08:56,771 --> 02:08:59,775
- That table of food
- gave Minny the strength she needed.
- 1636
- 02:09:00,858 --> 02:09:05,455
- She took her babies out from under Leroy
- and never went back.
- 1637
- 02:09:09,992 --> 02:09:12,620
- What are all these cars
- doing out here? Are we late?
- 1638
- 02:09:12,787 --> 02:09:14,130
- No, we ain't late.
- 1639
- 02:09:15,748 --> 02:09:16,795
- Why ain't you singing?
- 1640
- 02:09:16,958 --> 02:09:19,086
- We got to worry about getting
- in there and getting our seats.
- 1641
- 02:09:19,252 --> 02:09:20,469
- Come on now, we late!
- 1642
- 02:09:29,428 --> 02:09:32,728
- - Who we clapping for?
- - Honey, we clapping for you!
- 1643
- 02:09:36,269 --> 02:09:37,987
- Come on down, Sister Clark!
- 1644
- 02:09:38,896 --> 02:09:40,068
- Come on.
- 1645
- 02:09:58,249 --> 02:09:59,671
- Come on.
- 1646
- 02:10:02,461 --> 02:10:03,804
- All right, all right.
- 1647
- 02:10:05,423 --> 02:10:10,600
- Now, uh... this is an important time
- in our community.
- 1648
- 02:10:11,387 --> 02:10:15,642
- And we have to thank you
- for what you have done.
- 1649
- 02:10:18,019 --> 02:10:19,145
- Now...
- 1650
- 02:10:20,271 --> 02:10:22,899
- We know you couldn't put
- your name in here,
- 1651
- 02:10:24,317 --> 02:10:26,035
- so we all signed our own.
- 1652
- 02:10:28,446 --> 02:10:29,538
- Thank you.
- 1653
- 02:10:31,866 --> 02:10:35,666
- Come on, now. Come on.
- 1654
- 02:11:13,240 --> 02:11:17,120
- Churches over two counties
- signed our books. All for you and me.
- 1655
- 02:11:21,123 --> 02:11:22,466
- It's beautiful.
- 1656
- 02:11:25,795 --> 02:11:26,921
- What's wrong?
- 1657
- 02:11:33,135 --> 02:11:35,604
- I got a job offer from Harper and Row
- in New York.
- 1658
- 02:11:36,222 --> 02:11:38,020
- Congratulations!
- 1659
- 02:11:38,182 --> 02:11:41,777
- - I'm not taking it.
- - What you mean you're not taking it?
- 1660
- 02:11:41,936 --> 02:11:43,563
- I can't just leave you two here
- 1661
- 02:11:43,729 --> 02:11:46,152
- when things are getting bad
- from the mess that I created.
- 1662
- 02:11:46,315 --> 02:11:51,071
- No. If bad things happen,
- ain't nothing you can do about it.
- 1663
- 02:11:51,237 --> 02:11:53,615
- And now it's for a reason
- we can be proud of.
- 1664
- 02:11:55,866 --> 02:11:57,868
- I don't mean to rub salt in your wound,
- 1665
- 02:11:58,035 --> 02:12:00,504
- but you ain't got a good life here
- in Jackson.
- 1666
- 02:12:00,663 --> 02:12:02,131
- Plus, your mama's getting better.
- 1667
- 02:12:02,289 --> 02:12:05,668
- You ain't got nothing left here
- but enemies in the Junior League.
- 1668
- 02:12:05,835 --> 02:12:07,758
- You done burned every bridge there is.
- 1669
- 02:12:07,920 --> 02:12:10,389
- And you ain't never gonna
- get another man in this town.
- 1670
- 02:12:10,548 --> 02:12:12,767
- Everybody know that.
- 1671
- 02:12:12,925 --> 02:12:16,350
- So don't walk your white butt
- to New York, run it!
- 1672
- 02:12:18,347 --> 02:12:22,022
- Looky here, Miss Skeeter.
- I'm gonna take care of Aibileen.
- 1673
- 02:12:24,186 --> 02:12:25,984
- And she's gonna take care of me.
- 1674
- 02:12:37,741 --> 02:12:40,210
- Go find your life, Miss Skeeter.
- 1675
- 02:12:53,799 --> 02:12:56,177
- Aibileen, can you come in here, please?
- 1676
- 02:13:02,308 --> 02:13:03,355
- Good morning.
- 1677
- 02:13:04,101 --> 02:13:08,982
- Aibileen, the silver
- I lent Elizabeth last week.
- 1678
- 02:13:09,148 --> 02:13:11,242
- It not polished good?
- 1679
- 02:13:11,400 --> 02:13:14,654
- Humidity been fighting me
- on polishing day.
- 1680
- 02:13:14,820 --> 02:13:19,496
- When you returned it, three pieces
- were missing from the felt wrapper.
- 1681
- 02:13:20,826 --> 02:13:24,080
- A fork and two spoons.
- 1682
- 02:13:24,246 --> 02:13:27,796
- Let me... Let me go check in the
- kitchen. Maybe I left some behind.
- 1683
- 02:13:27,958 --> 02:13:31,007
- You know as well as I do that silver's
- not in the kitchen.
- 1684
- 02:13:33,339 --> 02:13:35,592
- You check in Mae Mobley's bed?
- 1685
- 02:13:36,717 --> 02:13:38,811
- Since the Lil Man was born,
- she been putting things...
- 1686
- 02:13:38,969 --> 02:13:40,721
- Do you hear her, Elizabeth?
- 1687
- 02:13:41,764 --> 02:13:43,562
- She's trying to blame it on a toddler.
- 1688
- 02:13:45,726 --> 02:13:47,399
- I ain't got no silver.
- 1689
- 02:13:47,561 --> 02:13:49,655
- She says she doesn't have them.
- 1690
- 02:13:50,147 --> 02:13:54,402
- Then it behooves me to inform you
- that you are Tired, Aibileen.
- 1691
- 02:13:55,528 --> 02:13:57,701
- And I'll be calling the police.
- 1692
- 02:13:59,615 --> 02:14:02,414
- Aibee, my throat hurts.
- 1693
- 02:14:04,578 --> 02:14:07,297
- I'll go get some syrup, Miss Leefolt.
- 1694
- 02:14:07,998 --> 02:14:10,501
- Elizabeth can take care
- of her own children.
- 1695
- 02:14:13,921 --> 02:14:16,765
- - I'll go get the cough syrup.
- - Come here, Lil Man.
- 1696
- 02:14:16,924 --> 02:14:18,346
- I'm OK.
- 1697
- 02:14:28,727 --> 02:14:30,775
- I didn't steal no silver.
- 1698
- 02:14:30,938 --> 02:14:34,659
- Maybe I can't send you to jail
- for what you wrote,
- 1699
- 02:14:34,817 --> 02:14:36,694
- but I can send you for being a thief.
- 1700
- 02:14:36,860 --> 02:14:39,283
- I know something about you.
- Don't you forget that.
- 1701
- 02:14:39,989 --> 02:14:43,118
- From what Yule Mae says, there's a lot
- of time to write letters in jail.
- 1702
- 02:14:43,284 --> 02:14:46,959
- Plenty of time to write the truth
- about you. And the paper is free.
- 1703
- 02:14:47,121 --> 02:14:49,795
- - Nobody will believe what you wrote!
- - I don't know!
- 1704
- 02:14:50,332 --> 02:14:53,632
- I been told I'm a pretty good writer.
- Already sold a lot of books.
- 1705
- 02:14:58,382 --> 02:15:00,555
- Call the police, Elizabeth.
- 1706
- 02:15:01,302 --> 02:15:04,021
- All you do is scare and lie
- to try to get what you want.
- 1707
- 02:15:04,179 --> 02:15:05,180
- Aibileen, stop!
- 1708
- 02:15:05,347 --> 02:15:07,395
- You a godless woman.
- 1709
- 02:15:09,435 --> 02:15:11,529
- Ain't you tired, Miss Hilly?
- 1710
- 02:15:14,189 --> 02:15:15,532
- Ain't you tired?
- 1711
- 02:15:28,954 --> 02:15:31,377
- Aibileen, you have to go now.
- 1712
- 02:15:46,013 --> 02:15:48,436
- Don't go, Aibee.
- 1713
- 02:15:49,642 --> 02:15:51,986
- Baby, you need to get back to bed.
- 1714
- 02:15:52,519 --> 02:15:56,569
- - Please don't leave.
- - I gots to, baby. I am so sorry.
- 1715
- 02:15:56,732 --> 02:15:59,485
- Are you going to take care
- of another little girl?
- 1716
- 02:15:59,652 --> 02:16:01,620
- No, that's not the reason.
- 1717
- 02:16:01,779 --> 02:16:05,329
- I don't want to leave you,
- but it's time for me to retire.
- 1718
- 02:16:05,491 --> 02:16:07,744
- - You're my last little girl.
- - No!
- 1719
- 02:16:07,910 --> 02:16:09,912
- Baby. Baby.
- 1720
- 02:16:10,913 --> 02:16:13,416
- I need you to remember everything
- I told you, OK?
- 1721
- 02:16:13,582 --> 02:16:15,710
- - OK.
- - You remember what I told you?
- 1722
- 02:16:15,876 --> 02:16:21,303
- You is kind. You is smart.
- 1723
- 02:16:21,465 --> 02:16:23,138
- You is important.
- 1724
- 02:16:23,300 --> 02:16:25,177
- That's right, Baby Girl.
- 1725
- 02:16:30,391 --> 02:16:31,859
- Don't go, Aibee.
- 1726
- 02:16:32,017 --> 02:16:33,234
- I gots to, baby.
- 1727
- 02:16:35,896 --> 02:16:37,819
- You give my sweet girl a chance.
- 1728
- 02:16:54,123 --> 02:16:56,376
- Mae Mobley was my last baby.
- 1729
- 02:16:58,836 --> 02:17:01,715
- In just ten minutes,
- the only life I knew was done.
- 1730
- 02:17:01,880 --> 02:17:04,599
- Aibee!
- 1731
- 02:17:07,970 --> 02:17:10,064
- God says we need to love our enemies.
- 1732
- 02:17:10,222 --> 02:17:11,565
- No!
- 1733
- 02:17:13,475 --> 02:17:14,818
- It hard to do.
- 1734
- 02:17:21,066 --> 02:17:23,194
- But it can start by telling the truth.
- 1735
- 02:17:28,365 --> 02:17:31,960
- No one had ever asked me
- what it felt like to be me.
- 1736
- 02:17:35,330 --> 02:17:37,378
- Once I told the truth about that...
- 1737
- 02:17:39,376 --> 02:17:41,049
- ...I felt free.
- 1738
- 02:17:49,470 --> 02:17:52,565
- And I got to thinking
- about all the people I know.
- 1739
- 02:17:54,600 --> 02:17:56,602
- And the things I seen and done.
- 1740
- 02:18:02,357 --> 02:18:06,703
- My boy, Treelore, always said we going
- to have a writer in the family one day.
- 1741
- 02:18:10,032 --> 02:18:12,160
- I guess it's gonna be me.
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