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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Release Date: Thursday, December 25, 2008 Theaters

Director: David Fincher

Starring: Brad Pitt Cate Blanchett Taraji P. Henson Julia Ormond Jason Flemyng

PG-13 Drama N/A

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Plot – What's the story about?

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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. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, "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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Who is making The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Crew List

A look at The Curious Case of Benjamin Button behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director David Fincher last helmed The Killer and Mank. The film's writer Eric Roth last penned Here and Killers of the Flower Moon.

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Ceán Chaffin
Kathleen Kennedy
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Parent Rating
PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for brief war violence, sexual content, language and smoking
Runtime
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Tagline
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Also known as
Benjamin Button

Language
English
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Release Date: When was the film released?

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was released in nationwide movie theaters on Thursday, December 25 , 2008. There were seven other movies released on the same date, including The Spirit, Marley & Me and Bedtime Stories.

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