The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Director: David Fincher
Writer: Eric Roth
Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton
Language: English
Theatrical Release Date: November 25, 2008
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
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Tagline: Life isn't measured in minutes, but in moments.

Synopsis: "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 mans life can be. [Synopsis courtesy of film's official website]

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