The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008

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NETFLIX Rating : 3.7

IMDB Rating : 7.8

FD Smart Rating : 7.6

Synopsis : David Fincher directs this Oscar-nominated tale of Benjamin Button, a man who was born old and wrinkled but grows younger as the years go by.

Directors:

David Fincher

Actors:

Cate Blanchett , Brad Pitt , Elle Fanning , Josh Stewart , Ed Metzger , Madisen Beaty , Elias Koteas , Donna DuPlantier , Taraji P. Henson , Fiona Hale , Tilda Swinton , Jason Flemyng , Faune A. Chambers , Joeanna Sayler , Julia Ormond , Mahershala Ali

Languages:

English , French , Spanish , Brazilian Portuguese , German , English [Original] , Italian , Polish

Subtitles:

French , English , Spanish , Brazilian Portuguese , German , Italian , Norwegian , Danish , Swedish , Finnish , Polish , Romanian

Genres:

Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Release Date:

2008

Run Time:

2h46m

Maturity Rating:

brief war violence, sexual content, language and smoking

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 in Benjamin's diary are difficult for Caroline to read, especially as it relates to the time past this reconnection between Benjamin and Daisy, when Daisy gets older and Benjamin grows younger into his childhood years.