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Actors, from left, Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer and Bryce Dallas Howard from the film, "The Help"

STEVE EMBER: "The Help" is a drama that takes place in the state of Mississippi in the American South of the nineteen sixties. It explores the relationships between wealthy whites and the blacks who work for them in their homes. The movie is based on the two thousand nine novel by Kathryn Stockett.

The main characters are a young white woman, Skeeter, and two black maids, Aibileen and Minny. They form a friendship when Skeeter asks if she can tell their stories in a book.

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SHIRLEY GRIFFITH:"Life in a Day" began as a project on YouTube. Director Kevin MacDonald wanted to make a documentary that shows one day in the life of the world. He asked people to upload video taken on July twenty-fourth, two thousand ten.

More than eighty thousand people in one hundred ninety countries uploaded videos. People were also asked to tell what they love and fear, and what makes them laugh.

The result is the movie "Life in a Day," which opens in theaters in the United States this July twenty-fourth.

STEVE EMBER: Steven Spielberg is out with a new movie. He produced "Super 8," a film led by a cast of child actors, including Elle Fanning, the sister of Dakota Fanning. "Super 8" is about a group of young people in the nineteen seventies who decide to make a homemade horror movie. They accidentally record a train wreck and, in the process, uncover a top-secret military project.