Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 166 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
- new york city
- navy
- funeral
- boat
- diary
- tea
- great depression
- travel
- hospital
- historical fiction
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Brad Pitt
Benjamin Button
Cate Blanchett
Daisy Fuller
Taraji P. Henson
Queenie
Julia Ormond
Caroline Fuller
- Jason Flemyng — Thomas Button
- Tilda Swinton — Elizabeth Abbott
- Mahershala Ali — Tizzy Weathers
- Jared Harris — Captain Mike
- Elias Koteas — Monsieur Gateau
- Phyllis Somerville — Grandma Fuller
- Faune Chambers Watkins — Dorothy Baker
- Donna DuPlantier — Blanche Devereux
- Jacob Tolano — Martin Gateau
- Earl Maddox — Man at Train Station
- Ed Metzger — Teddy Roosevelt
- Directed
- David Fincher
- Written
- Eric Roth
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 13,998 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, The Kennedy/Marshall Company
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
