share: digg facebook twitter The movie isn't all yuks, not by a long shot, but The Help finds comic release in the story of black maids and bigoted white employers at the dawn of the civil rights era. Other standouts include Leslie Jordan as a nutty little editor; Sissy Spacek as Hilly's loopy, laughing mother; Jessica Chastain as a joyously low-rent ditz with a painful secret; and Cicely Tyson, appearing in flashback, as the beloved old maid who raised Skeeter.