Curious Case of Benjamin Button (BLU-RAY) (2008) USA
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Director:David Fincher
Studio:Warner Bros.
Writer:Eric Roth, Eric Roth
Rating:7.8 (476,624 votes)
Rated:PG-13
Date Added:2017-02-14
Awards:Won 3 Oscars, Another 73 wins & 146 nominations
Genre:Drama, Fantasy, Romance
IMDb:0421715
Duration:166
Aspect Ratio:2.35 : 1
Sound:DTS
LAC code:300011009
DVD or VHS:DVD blue ray
Original:original
David Fincher  ...  (Director)
Eric Roth, Eric Roth  ...  (Writer)
 
Cate Blanchett  ...  Daisy
Brad Pitt  ...  Benjamin Button
Julia Ormond  ...  Caroline
Faune Chambers Watkins  ...  Dorothy Baker (as Faune Chambers)
Elias Koteas  ...  Monsieur Gateau
Donna Duplantier  ...  Blanche Devereux
Jacob Tolano  ...  Martin Gateau (as Jacob Wood)
Earl Maddox  ...  Man at Train Station
Ed Metzger  ...  Teddy Roosevelt
Jason Flemyng  ...  Thomas Button
Danny Vinson  ...  Priest Giving Last Rites
David Jensen  ...  Doctor at Benjamin's Birth
Johanna Roxanne  ...  Caroline Button (as Joeanna Sayler)
Taraji P. Henson  ...  Queenie
Mahershala Ali  ...  Tizzy (as Mahershalalhashbaz Ali)
Summary: 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 ...