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The Help Page #6
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- 2011
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SKEETER:
Do you have an address for her or
anything?
Aibileen shrugs her shoulders, reeling it all back in.
Just then, Elizabeth walks into the kitchen holding papers
stapled together. She looks between Aibileen and Skeeter.
ELIZABETH:
I'm sorry. Did I interrupt
something?
Skeeter and Aibileen shake their heads.
Elizabeth hands Skeeter the papers. Home Help Sanitation
Initiative is written on the cover.
ELIZABETH (CONT'D)
Hilly wants this put in the League
newsletter.
Skeeter nods.
20.
SKEETER:
Aibileen, I'll drop by at ten
tomorrow to get started on Miss
Myrna.
Elizabeth looks at Aibileen.
ELIZABETH:
Tomorrow is silver polishing day,
so y'all make it quick, okay?
EXT. COUNTRY ROAD - LATER THAT DAY
Skeeter speeds down a country road lined with ancient oak
trees in a white Cadillac.
AIBILEEN (V.O.)
I knew I had said too much to Miss
Skeeter, but Constantine's story
weren't mine to tell. Some things
a girl shouldn't have to know about
her own mother.
Her frizzy hair swirls about as she passes a truck full of
cotton.
INT. CADILLAC (FANTASY SEQUENCE) - SAME TIME
Skeeter looks ahead and sees an OLDER BLACK WOMAN walking
with a LITTLE BLONDE GIRL, 6. They hold hands.
The black woman smiles and waves as Skeeter passes. When
Skeeter looks in her rear view mirror, they're gone.
Skeeter suddenly stops the car just short of an intersecting
gravel road.
Skeeter slowly turns down the old road.
EXT. CONSTANTINE'S HOUSE - DAY
Skeeter's car pulls into the overgrown yard of an old shack
with a rusted-out tin roof.
Two clapboard rooms are separated by an open breezeway. The
front door is cracked opened.
Skeeter gets out and walks toward Constantine's home.
INT. CONSTANTINE'S HOUSE - MOMENTS LATER
Skeeter enters to find only a small bed, dresser, table,
rocking chair and a wood burning stove.
Past intruders have long since taken anything of value.
21.
As Skeeter approaches Constantine's bed, an OPOSSUM scurries
out from underneath.
Skeeter screams as the opossum runs out the door. Her eyes
suddenly catch something.
Lying on the bed is an OLD CORN PIPE.
Skeeter picks it up and brings it to her face. Her eyes
begin to well up.
EXT. PHELAN PLANTATION - MOMENTS LATER
Skeeter pulls in front of a grand antebellum home and parks
to the side of her family's graveyard.
Skeeter carries her black dress up the stairs of a covered
porch.
An old black man with white hair, JAMESO, 70, tightens a
porch swing.
SKEETER:
Hey, Jameso.
JAMESO:
Hello, Miss Eugenia.
INT. PHELAN PLANTATION - ENTRY FOYER - MOMENTS LATER
Skeeter walks through the front door.
SKEETER:
Momma!
If the Smithsonian had wished to assemble the perfect
antebellum home, Skeeter would be standing in it.
INT. PHELAN HOME - PARENTS' BEDROOM - MOMENTS LATER
Skeeter enters and looks around curiously at an ARRAY OF WIGS
resting atop a dresser.
SKEETER:
Momma?
Skeeter's mother, CHARLOTTE BOUDREAU CANTELLE PHELAN, 50,
glides into the room wearing a wig. Her floral print dress
has a gazillion perfectly pressed pleats.
Charlotte turns to a mirror and adjusts an auburn-colored,
`pixie' cut.
CHARLOTTE:
Is this a little too young?
SKEETER:
It's a little too everything.
22.
Charlotte removes the wig with a sigh. Only now do we
realize her decision to wear wigs isn't elective. Thinning
hair detracts from her perfectly made up face.
Charlotte puts on a classic bouffant/flip in dark brown.
SKEETER (CONT'D)
Much better.
CHARLOTTE:
Your daddy bought me this dress in
`58.
SKEETER:
Mom, I want to ask you about
CONSTANTINE-
CHARLOTTE:
-Right after Ole Miss won the Sugar
Bowl.
Charlotte unzips the dress and takes it off.
CHARLOTTE (CONT'D)
Come on, you try it on.
SKEETER:
What really happened?
Charlotte winces with pain and grasps her stomach.
CHARLOTTE:
I told you...she went to live with
her people in Chicago...Now,
Skeeter, your mother is dying, and
she wants to see you in this dress.
Charlotte stands in her slip and bra holding the dress.
Skeeter begins taking off her clothes.
SKEETER:
How could she just take off without
telling me?
CHARLOTTE:
I told her not to write you. I
didn't want you upset in the middle
of final exams. Honey, we were
just a job to her. With them it's
all about money...Did I tell you
Fanny Peatrow got engaged? After
she got that teller job, her mother
said she was just swimming in
proposals.
SKEETER:
Good for "Fat Fanny Peatrow."
She lowers the dress over Skeeter's head and zips it.
23.
CHARLOTTE:
This looks precious on you! Four
years ago my daughter went off to
college, and what did she come home
with?
SKEETER CHARLOTTE
A diploma. A pretty piece of paper.
CHARLOTTE (CONT'D)
Hilly and Elizabeth have such
lovely children.
SKEETER:
They dropped out of college to
become housewives, Mother.
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