Oscars 2012: "The Help"

Aspiring author Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Emma Stone) has returned home to Jackson from earning her journalism degree at Ole Miss and lands a job at the Jackson Journal. To her friends in the Junior League, Skeeter is something of an anomaly - she's single and childless, she has a job! It's certainly a sore point for Skeeter's mother Charlotte (Allison Janney), who would love to see her daughter date, let alone get married.

Skeeter's outspokenness may have something to do with the single part, but she is not afraid to speak up against her friends who talk disrespectfully of the hired help right in front of them.

Credit: Dreamworks