The Curious Case of Benjamin Button PG-13
Life isn't measured in minutes, but in moments.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 8, 2013
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Paramount Catalog
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Brad Pitt & Cate Blanchett | |
Performer: | Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas, Julia Ormond & Elle Fanning | |
Directed by | David Fincher | |
Edited by | Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall | |
Screenwriting by | Eric Roth | |
Composition by | Alexandre Desplat | |
Produced by | Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall | |
Director of Photography: | Claudio Miranda |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2009 -
Best Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt
Academy Awards 2009 -
Best Makeup: Greg Cannom
Academy Awards 2009 -
Best Visual Effects: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
3 stars out of 4 -- Set in a visually stunning realm of heightened reality....BUTTON is never dull, and the conclusion is graceful and poignant.
USA Today
[A]n epic tale that contemplates the wonders of life -- of birth and death and, most of all, love....Superbly made and winningly acted by Brad Pitt in his most impressive outing to date...
Hollywood Reporter
Throughout, the film seems to lack the necessary ingredient to engage the audience with more than its superficial beauty.
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WORLD
[A] triumph of technique....Mr. Fincher has added a dimension of delicacy and grace to digital filmmaking.
New York Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Fincher is a master of establishing atmosphere, and the film has a dark, fable-like quality that is nearly intoxicating.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
3 stars out of 4 -- The movie looks amazing....The technical wizardry sweeps you away....[Fincher's] astutely restrained direction fuses ferocity and feeling and creates a world you want to get lost in.
Rolling Stone
Rating: 1/5 --
Remove "curious" from the title and replace it with "twee and pointless", and you're close to it. What a incredible shaggy-puppy of a movie, a cobweb-construction patched together with CGI, prosthetics, gibberish and warm tears.
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Guardian
Product Description:
At once epic in scope and intimate in detail, David Fincher's THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON is certainly the director's most emotional film to date (though FIGHT CLUB and SEVEN don't offer much in the way of competition). Loosely based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald story, this romantic drama tells the tale of Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt), born in 1918 in New Orleans as a baby with wrinkles, cataracts, and arthritis. Benjamin will age backwards, getting younger as he watches those around him growing older. Included in that group are his adoptive mother, Queenie (Taraji P. Henson), and Daisy (Cate Blanchett), the love of his life whom he meets when she is just a little girl and he is an old man. They age in reverse, but despite Benjamin's globe-trotting adventures, their lives repeatedly intersect.
The script from Oscar winner Eric Roth bears more than a few hallmarks in common with his earlier work on FORREST GUMP: both adaptations cross decades and continents. But BENJAMIN's script or even the fine acting aren't its most impressive accomplishment; the technology--both CGI and makeup--used to make Benjamin and Daisy age are remarkable, and makes the film entirely believable, but they're certainly aided by fine performances from both Pitt and Blanchett. The triumph of technology only serves to underscore the beauty of this film and of the love story at its heart.
The script from Oscar winner Eric Roth bears more than a few hallmarks in common with his earlier work on FORREST GUMP: both adaptations cross decades and continents. But BENJAMIN's script or even the fine acting aren't its most impressive accomplishment; the technology--both CGI and makeup--used to make Benjamin and Daisy age are remarkable, and makes the film entirely believable, but they're certainly aided by fine performances from both Pitt and Blanchett. The triumph of technology only serves to underscore the beauty of this film and of the love story at its heart.
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Product Info
- UPC: 883929303625
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