The Help - Original Score

Based on one of the most talked about books in years and a #1 New York Times best-selling phenomenon, The Help stars Emma Stone (Easy A) as Skeeter, Academy Award®-nominated Viola Davis (Doubt) as Aibileen and Octavia Spencer as Minny—three very different, extraordinary women in Mississippi during the 1960s, who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project that breaks societal rules and puts them all at risk. From their improbable alliance a remarkable sisterhood emerges, instilling all of them with the courage to transcend the lines that define them, and the realization that sometimes those lines are made to be crossed—even if it means bringing everyone in town face-to-face with the changing times.

10-time Oscar® nominee Thomas Newman comes to The Help after a career that has included such classic and diverse scores as The Player, American Beauty, Finding Nemo, Road To Perdition, and so many others. Here, Newman returns to the American South he previously explored musically in Fried Green Tomatoes, and delivers one of the most important scores of the year.