The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Blu-ray) PG-13
Life isn't measured in minutes, but in moments.
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- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: January 24, 2017
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Brad Pitt & Cate Blanchett | |
Performer: | Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas, Julia Ormond & Elle Fanning | |
Directed by | David Fincher | |
Edited by | Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall | |
Screenwriting by | Eric Roth | |
Composition by | Alexandre Desplat | |
Produced by | Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall | |
Director of Photography: | Claudio Miranda |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2009 -
Best Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt
Academy Awards 2009 -
Best Makeup: Greg Cannom
Academy Awards 2009 -
Best Visual Effects: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
[A]n extravagantly ambitious movie....The movie has been in the works for years, pored over by Fincher like a favorite fairy tale from his childhood. -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
4 stars out of 5 -- [A]n epic of rare scope and scale....Bold and brilliant...
Total Film
4 stars out of 4 -- Pitt and Blanchett are outstanding. Fincher's meticulous attention to detail is unerring...
Premiere
I'd like to report that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button represents the end of an era, one of those turning-points when American movies just have to change because they can't get any worse.
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The eXile
It could have worked, had it ever snapped to life, but it doesn't. It just goes on and on and on and on and on and on. And on. You may even shake your watch to check it is still going. I know I did.
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The Spectator
Rating: 3/5 --
Like its title this is a curious film, indeed.
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Orca Sound
[A]n epic tale that contemplates the wonders of life -- of birth and death and, most of all, love....Superbly made and winningly acted by Brad Pitt in his most impressive outing to date...
Hollywood Reporter
Product Description:
At once epic in scope and intimate in detail, David Fincher's THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON is certainly the director's most emotional film to date (though FIGHT CLUB and SEVEN don't offer much in the way of competition). Loosely based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald story, this romantic drama tells the tale of Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt), born in 1918 in New Orleans as a baby with wrinkles, cataracts, and arthritis. Benjamin will age backwards, getting younger as he watches those around him growing older. Included in that group are his adoptive mother, Queenie (Taraji P. Henson), and Daisy (Cate Blanchett), the love of his life whom he meets when she is just a little girl and he is an old man. They age in reverse, but despite Benjamin's globe-trotting adventures, their lives repeatedly intersect.
The script from Oscar winner Eric Roth bears more than a few hallmarks in common with his earlier work on FORREST GUMP: both adaptations cross decades and continents. But BENJAMIN's script or even the fine acting aren't its most impressive accomplishment; the technology--both CGI and makeup--used to make Benjamin and Daisy age are remarkable, and makes the film entirely believable, but they're certainly aided by fine performances from both Pitt and Blanchett. The triumph of technology only serves to underscore the beauty of this film and of the love story at its heart.
The script from Oscar winner Eric Roth bears more than a few hallmarks in common with his earlier work on FORREST GUMP: both adaptations cross decades and continents. But BENJAMIN's script or even the fine acting aren't its most impressive accomplishment; the technology--both CGI and makeup--used to make Benjamin and Daisy age are remarkable, and makes the film entirely believable, but they're certainly aided by fine performances from both Pitt and Blanchett. The triumph of technology only serves to underscore the beauty of this film and of the love story at its heart.
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