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        Kathryn Stockett&#039;s best-seller gets a draggy film adaptation
            by Curt Holman
            The Hollywood adaptation of Kathryn Stockett&#039;s The Help captures all the humidity of Civil Rights-era Mississippi, but scarcely any of the dramatic heat. Screenwriter/director Tate Taylor illuminates the details of Southern living under Jim Crow &mdash; the food, the fashion, the omnipresent sweat and racial tensions &mdash; without unifying them in a compelling narrative.&hellip;
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