The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (2008) DVDScr 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 born an old man who was diagnosed with several... Read Full Story

This movie has a very curious tale indeed! Based on the short story by F Scott Fitzgerald, it centres around the implausible life story of a man who is born old and ages backwards. The tale is set against the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina, and told from the viewpoint of a dying woman, Daisy ( Cate Blanchett ), who is relaying the story to her grown up daughter Caroline. She does this with the help of Benjamin Button’s diaries, chronicling his extraordinary life. Benjamin Button ( Brad Pitt... Read Full Story

This movie has a very curious tale indeed! Based on the short story by F Scott Fitzgerald, it centres around the implausible life story of a man who is born old and ages backwards. The tale is set against the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina, and told from the viewpoint of a dying woman, Daisy ( Cate Blanchett ), who is relaying the story to her grown up daughter Caroline. She does this with the help of Benjamin Button’s diaries, chronicling his extraordinary life. Benjamin Button ( Brad Pitt... Read Full Story

When was inagurated a clock thats run in other way around, born a strange child, he was so strange that his father give him, after his mother died. In the way, Thomas Button( Jason Flemyng ) find a home, and put him in the stairs and desappear. He get to stop at Mrs.Queenie ( Taraji P. Henson ) hands, a humble woman who caring for ancients persons, that house is like a shelter. Benjamin( Brad Pitt ), like that called the boy, has a strange and unkind, so he looks like a person with 80... Read Full Story

What if you age backwards? Meaning to say, what if one begins life as an old person and then “ages younger”? Such as is the case in Scott Fitzgerald’s 1921 short story, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” In the short story, the protagonist, Benjamin Button, begins life with one foot on the grave and then grows “younger” over the years going through middle life, adolescence, childhood, and finally infancy. The short story spurred enough curiosity for it to be adapted into a film with the... Read Full Story

ReviewColumn's rating : If someone were to ask for one word to describe this movie, there would be none. Some movies need a lot more than just a word to portray them and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) certainly falls into the category. Coming from the stables of a director with precedents like Se7en and Fight Club and the writer of Forrest Gump, the movie owes it central concept to a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Nominated for a record 13 Academy awards or Oscars as... Read Full Story

David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story, re-teams the director with Brad Pitt, who takes on the title role. What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just after World War I, he is already in his eighties, and proceeds to live his life aging in reverse. This sweeping film follows the character’s unusual life into the 21st century as he experiences joy and sadness, loves lost and found, and the meaning... Read Full Story

I am ready. The popcorn is popped with some odd-tasting nacho cheddar seasoning sprinkled on top of my Orville--which I somewhat regretted, Orville is fine on its own. I am comfortable on the couch, and Kyle turned the last remaining lamp off for Melody and I. The screen darkens and the movie begins... Before this afternoon's viewing, I had heard some mixed reviews for the film from my peers. Some said it was good, as the trailer had illustrated, and some said it was not good at all. But... Read Full Story

Plot: I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy and... Read Full Story

David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story, re-teams the director with Brad Pitt, who takes on the title role. What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just after World War I, he is already in his eighties, and proceeds to live his life aging in reverse. This sweeping film follows the character’s unusual life into the 21st century as he experiences joy and sadness, loves lost and found, and the meaning... Read Full Story