The Butler

2013 • 126 minutes
4.0
40 reviews
72%
Tomatometer
Eligible
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About this movie

The Butler is a 2013 American historical drama film directed and produced by Lee Daniels and written by Danny Strong.Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with her addictions and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way. (CBFC UA DFL/2/105/2013-MUM)

Ratings and reviews

4.0
40 reviews
aven russo
January 30, 2016
Yet another big studio oscar bait trying to scrape in awards and failing miserably.
41 people found this review helpful
LALU KUMAR RAY
July 19, 2020
ततंतथतीईथधोऔउ
13 people found this review helpful
gh gg
August 15, 2020
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13 people found this review helpful