The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Benjamin has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
9 April 1998, Conyers, Georgia, USA
30 January 1977, San Fernando Valley, California, USA
9 September 1980, Covington, Louisiana, USA
21 October 1948, Portland, Oregon, USA
29 April 1952, Long Island, Astoria, New York, USA
18 December 1963, Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA
15 December 1998, Houston, Texas, USA
13 July 1955, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
17 December 1961, Huntington, West Virginia, USA
27 May 2006, Swakopmund, Namibia
7 February 1926, New York, USA
25 September 1966, Putney, London, England, UK
July 19, 2015
Converts an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man aging backward into an overly long exercise in pseudo-profundity bearing little resemblance to its source.
January 02, 2009
With a running time of almost three slow-going hours, the movie definitely makes you feel as though you're aging forward.
December 29, 2008
Fincher's visual mastery and Pitt's charisma almost compensate for a gimmick in search of a meaning. The more time Fincher gives viewers with Button, the thinner the character grows.
October 21, 2014
A man who ages backwards will never be able to bond to another person in a truly meaningful way. We can barely be expected to return affection that isn't there.
December 12, 2015
There are worse films than The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and those 15 masterful minutes may well justify the price of admission. But there's a lot of movie before and after Swinton's cameo.
February 05, 2009
An epic, melancholic romance that employs a multi-generational cast and groundbreaking visual effects. It's a testament to Fincher's skill as a storyteller that the film actually works, albeit sporadically.
December 30, 2008
Mostly, the film is an orgy of excess, in which Fincher indulges his passion for luxuriant image-making, with little regard for whether the story merits (or can withstand) such grandiose treatment.
October 07, 2015
One troubling thing is the pedophile overtone that runs throughout the film.
August 16, 2011
One of the best half-movies of the year.
December 29, 2008
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leaves you colder than it should, and it shouldn't leave you cold at all.
June 22, 2013
Everything sure is pretty, but I'm not sure this movie has anything to say.
December 30, 2008
There's leisure to the storytelling, a splendor that captures the movie's celebratory but also melancholy ideas about our time on this mortal coil.
