The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Single-Disc Edition)
by David Fincher
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Actor: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Faune A. Chambers, Julia Ormond, Tilda SwintonDirector: David Fincher
Brand: Paramount
Producer: Ce?n Chaffin
Producer: Frank Marshall
Producer: Jim Davidson
Producer: Kathleen Kennedy
Writer: Eric Roth
Writer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writer: Robin Swicord
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 166 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-05-05
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Single-Disc Edition)
Movie Review: Trying to be too much, with too little.
Summary: 2 Stars
Felt like a Forest Gump type of movie, without the humor or compelling storyline. The movie encapsulates every sense of the word dull, and while an interesting concept, the overdrawn length of the movie coupled with a daily regret I now have for loosing 3 hours of my life while watching this forces me to hand it a 2 star rating. There are movies made so you don't have to think, and movies made to provoke thought and discourse. This movie promotes a drab, dry in between that leaves you wondering what else might have been accomplished during the time it took to watch the movie.
Summary of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Single-Disc Edition)
A MAN WHO IS BORN IN HIS EIGHTIES AND AGES BACKWARDS A MAN WHO IS UNABLE TO STOP TIME.The technical dazzle of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a truly astonishing thing to behold: this story of a man who ages backwards requires Brad Pitt to begin life as a tiny elderly man, then blossom into middle age, and finally, wisely, become young. How director David Fincher--with makeup artists, special-effects wizards, and body doubles--achieves this is one of the main sources of fascination in the early reels of the movie. The premise is loosely borrowed from an F. Scott Fitzgerald story (and bears an even stronger resemblance to Andrew Sean Greer's novel The Confessions of Max Tivoli), with young/old Benjamin growing up in New Orleans, meeting the girl of his dreams (Cate Blanchett), and sharing a few blissful years with her until their different aging agendas send them in opposite directions. The love story takes over the second half of the picture, as Eric Roth's script begins to resemble his work on Forrest Gump. This is too bad, because Benjamin's early life is a wonderfully picaresque journey, especially a set of midnight liaisons with a Russian lady (Tilda Swinton) in an atmospheric hotel. Fincher observes all this with an entomologist's eye, cool and exacting, which keeps the material from getting all gooey. Still, the Hurricane Katrina framing story feels put-on, and the movie lets Benjamin slide offscreen during its later stages--curious indeed.--Robert Horton
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