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Movie Night Features 'The Help' Sunday at Hamilton Park

By Wendell Hutson | August 20, 2014 6:40pm
 The 2011 movie "The Help," starring Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, will be shown on Aug. 25, 2014.
The 2011 movie "The Help," starring Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, will be shown on Aug. 25, 2014.
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ENGLEWOOD — This weekend Hamilton Park will host a movie night as part of the city's Movies in the Park summer series.

The free, 2011 movie "The Help" will be shown at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Englewood park, 513 W. 72nd St.

The PG-13 movie starring Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer is based on a book by an aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s detailing the black maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they went through on a daily basis.

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