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Lead Actors

Cate Blanchett Thumbnail
Cate Blanchett
as Daisy
Brad Pitt Thumbnail
Brad Pitt
as Benjamin Button
Tilda Swinton Thumbnail
Tilda Swinton
as Elizabeth Abbott
Elle Fanning Thumbnail
Elle Fanning
as Daisy as a Child
Jason Flemyng Thumbnail
Jason Flemyng
as Thomas Button

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The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

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7.68
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Director: David Fincher
Writer: Eric Roth
Release Date: 10 December 2008 (Australia)  more
Language: English | Russian | French
Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance
Tagline: Life isn't measured in minutes, but in moments

Storyline

Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.

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The Director

David Fincher
David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American film director and music video director. Known for his dark and stylish thrillers, such as Seven (1995), The Game (1997), Fight Club (1999), Panic Room (2002), and Zodiac (2007), Fincher received Academy Award nominations for Best Director for his 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and his 2010 film The Social Network, which also won him the Golden Globe and the BAFTA for best director.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Benjamin Button is born old. Left by his father, a button tycoon, on the doorstep of a Louisiana nursing home, his wrinkly, decrepit baby body is raised by one of the caregivers in the home. As he grows older in years, his body grows younger. He meets a little girl named Daisy, and though he is her age, his elderly appearance keeps him from becoming her playmate. Instead, he waits out the decades, working as a hired hand on a tugboat, seeing the world, until the time comes where his age and his looks can both catch up and meet square in the middle. He returns to Daisy, hopeful that they can spend a few years together, before she grows too old and he grows too young to keep their romance going.

At its best, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a technical marvel and a warm-hearted, beautiful movie. At its worst, Benjamin Button is a desperate, overblown exercise in sentimentality. trying very, very hard to get a reaction that really shouldn’t be this difficult to get. It wants you to feel romantic and wistful and sad, but it takes such a detour-laden path to get there, that the film never earns those honest emotions from the audience in response. The last time I can think of where someone spent this much time and money and tech whiz-bang trying to get an audience to cry a little was Bicentennial Man, the multi-generational Robin Williams sci-fi love story.

If Benjamin Button is primarily the love story between Benjamin (Brad Pitt) and Daisy (Cate Blanchett) , and I think that it is, since the movie is framed by Julia Ormand as Daisy’s daughter, reading aloud from Button’s diary to Daisy while she waits on her death bed on the eve of hurricane Katrina ...

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erland

Clever, interesting. One to watch for sure.


wolfnotes

After the novelty of its premise wears off, there isn't much in the screenplay and its treatment of the source material to keep things interesting. Also, the present-day segments seem like a clumsy narrative device, an unsuccessful attempt at added sentiment. It remains watchable, however, due to its enchanting visuals and the appeal of actors such as Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton.


Stain

The central fantasy conceit -- a man is born old, and gets younger at the same rate everybody else ages -- is not particularly original or interesting, and it isn't handled in an especially dramatic or clever way. This movie is a big ol' wannabe-_Forrest Gump_, right down to the historical/cultural touchstones (the world wars, the African man who actually was kept as a zoo exhibit, Edgar Cayce, etc.)


emtilt

Yep, it's pretty much Forrest Gump. The dying mom frame story was also entirely unnecessary, as was the Katrina references. Kinda boring, kinda cheesy, average overall.


thaklos

This is a good film, it is certainly intriguing throughout, I'm just not sure that it says anything incredible, it needs a message mixed in with the granduer. Still, fantastic acting, wonderful direction, great characters.


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