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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) 7.8
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7.8/10 from 365,219 users
Metascore: 70/100
Reviews: 802 user | 353 critic | 37 from Metacritic.com Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences. Director:David Fincher |
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Cast
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| Cate Blanchett | ... | ||
| Brad Pitt | ... | ||
| Julia Ormond | ... | ||
| Faune A. Chambers | ... |
Dorothy Baker
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| Elias Koteas | ... | ||
| Donna Duplantier | ... | ||
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Jacob Tolano | ... |
Martin Gateau
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Earl Maddox | ... | |
| Ed Metzger | ... | ||
| Jason Flemyng | ... | ||
| Danny Vinson | ... |
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| David Jensen | ... |
Doctor at Benjamin's Birth
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| Joeanna Sayler | ... | ||
| Taraji P. Henson | ... | ||
| Mahershala Ali | ... |
Tizzy
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Plot Synopsis
Storyline
On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams (nee Fuller) is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards, being diagnosed with several aging diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival, but who does survive and gets younger with time. Abandoned by his biological father, Thomas Button, after Benjamin's biological mother died in childbirth, Benjamin was raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident at that home, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when in age they finally match up. Some of the revelations ... Written by Huggo
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Country:
USARelease Date:
25 December 2008 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
L'étrange histoire de Benjamin Button See more »Box Office
Budget:
$150,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£2,213,495 (UK) (6 February 2009)Gross:
$127,490,802 (USA) (17 April 2009)Company Credits
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Daisy: What are you looking at, Caroline?
Caroline: The wind, mom.
[yawns]
Caroline: They say the hurricane is coming.
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(Theme from "Don Sebastian")
Written by Gaetano Donizetti
Arranged & Performed by Steven V. Mitchell
Courtesy of Mignon Furman and Danceables Productions
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Did You Know?
Trivia
During one scene, Benjamin can be seen reading Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe" which is also the name of the Melbourne suburb where Cate Blanchett (Daisy) grew up. See more »Goofs
When Captain Mike was shot in his boat, he falls down on right side, maneuvering boat to the right, but boat maneuvers to left as it starts approaching submarine. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Daisy: What are you looking at, Caroline?
Caroline: The wind, mom.
[yawns]
Caroline: They say the hurricane is coming.
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Crazy Credits
The Paramount and Warner Bros. logos are in the form of mosaics constructed from several buttons. See more »Soundtracks
CHASSE INTO CHAINE(Theme from "Don Sebastian")
Written by Gaetano Donizetti
Arranged & Performed by Steven V. Mitchell
Courtesy of Mignon Furman and Danceables Productions
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This film is worthy of a 10/10 rating simply because of its imaginative and complex nature, I mean, I couldn't bring myself to know why this simple idea of a man aging backwards hadn't sprouted up before. Set all the way back at the end of the Great War, to New Orlean's meeting with Hurricane Katrina, this movie tells the story of Benjamin Button, a baby born an old man of eighty, destined to die in the mere form of a zero-year-old. I found this movie very emotional and special because there's reeally nothing like it. I honestly thought, when I found out the immense length of the film, it was going to be boring....I was wrong, it gripped me from start to finish. There are many emotional and touching scenes in it, including the end, where it brings forth Benjamin Button's 'younger' years as an old man. Nothing went wrong with the cast, Brad Pitt played a great job as a reverse-aging man, and Cate went well as his childhood friend. Overall, this movie was great and I recommend it to anyone who loves the genre.