"I
was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins Benjamin Button,
adapted from the classic 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man
who is born in his eighties and ages backwards. A man, like any of us,
unable to stop time. We follow his story set in New Orleans from the
end of World War I in 1918, into the twenty-first century, following
his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by
David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Tilda
Swinton, Taraji P. Henson, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia
Ormond, Benjamin Button, is a time traveler's tale of the people and
places he bumps into along the way, the loves he loses and finds, the
joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
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