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"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.
Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad
Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng,
Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button" is a grand
tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the
way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what
lasts beyond time.
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