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Butler (The)
- Director: Lee Daniels
- Writer: Wil Haygood; Lee Daniels
- Producer: Horatio Bacon; Julia Barry
CGiii Comment
Oh dear...a plodding fiction (very) loosely extracted from fact.
It has been compared to a dumbed-down version of Forrest Gump - not a compliment.
Few compliments can be given...other than the fun of spot-the-actor-in-heavy-disguise.
Mr Daniels squandered an incredible opportunity with an outstanding cast - all let down by a mendacious and miserable script...and, a ridiculous ego: Lee Daniels' The Butler...indeed.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with her addictions and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.
Cast & Characters
Alex Pettyfer as Thomas Westfall;
Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan;
John Cusack as Richard Nixon;
Robin Williams as Dwight Eisenhower;
James Marsden as John F. Kennedy;
Liev Schreiber as Lyndon B. Johnson;
Minka Kelly as Jackie Kennedy;
Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines;
David Oyelowo as Louis Gaines;
Cuba Gooding Jr. as Carter Wilson