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And the usually reliable Allison Janney is stuck in the melodramatic role as Skeeter's drama-queen mother, who is dying of cancer but apparently not fast enough.

Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Help Marshall Fine 2011

Skeeter's mother, played by Allison Janney, is a drab construction with an oddly unsatisfying story to tell.

'The Help': '60s Racism in Black and White Joe Morgenstern 2011

Obviously, there's got to be a villain -- in this case, Skeeter's Junior League nemesis, Hilly Holbrook Bryce Dallas Howard.

Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Help Marshall Fine 2011

Skeeter's boyfriend is an inconstant cipher, and her book editor in New York is a fleeting caricature of a Jewish liberal, while the caricatures of Hilly's Junior League cohorts are as vivid as they are unrestrained.

'The Help': '60s Racism in Black and White Joe Morgenstern 2011

He attempts to take advantage of the phenomenon, incorporating his own aspirations into one outlandish tale after another, but it's the kids 'unexpected contributions that turn Skeeter's life upside down.

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Trouble comes in the form of the emerging civil rights movement, a random conversation with a book editor in New York her idea that there's a book in Skeeter's conversations with African American maids.

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The advance publicity for Skeeter's biography has certainly suggested that there will be shocks in store for those who believe Dumbledore to have led a blameless life.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

That's why I can't wait to find out what Skeeter's unearthed!

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

Her scene in the broom closet with Harry was an excellent mix of the book's sensibility and the film's original tone Rowling isn't the one who suggested a faint sexual undertone to Skeeter's attitude towards Harry, and although "My eyes are not 'glistening with the ghosts of my past'!" is not a line from the book, it sounds as if it ought to be.

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Her scene in the broom closet with Harry was an excellent mix of the book's sensibility and the film's original tone Rowling isn't the one who suggested a faint sexual undertone to Skeeter's attitude towards Harry, and although "My eyes are not 'glistening with the ghosts of my past'!" is not a line from the book, it sounds as if it ought to be.

Mike Newell's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: A Harshly Fannish Perspective Abigail Nussbaum 2005