The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.8/10· 741K votes

Rotten Tomatoes71%

Metacritic70%

TMDb7.599/10· 14K votes

With 71% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.8/10 on IMDb and 70/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he 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.

Cast of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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  Brad Pitt

  as Benjamin Button

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  Cate Blanchett

  as Daisy Fuller

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  Taraji P. Henson

  as Queenie

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  Julia Ormond

  as Caroline Fuller

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  Jason Flemyng

  as Thomas Button

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  Tilda Swinton

  as Elizabeth Abbott

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  Mahershala Ali

  as Tizzy Weathers

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  Jared Harris

  as Captain Mike

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  Elias Koteas

  as Monsieur Gateau

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  Phyllis Somerville

  as Grandma Fuller

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  Faune Chambers Watkins

  as Dorothy Baker

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  Donna DuPlantier

  as Blanche Devereux

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button facts

Budget

$150M

Box office

$335.8M

Our take on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

David Fincher trades his usual menace for melancholy in this fantasy romance, following Benjamin Button, born an old man in a New Orleans nursing home and aging in reverse across a long, strange life. The film's engine is his on-and-off relationship with Daisy, a dancer who drifts through his years, and the aching question of whether two people moving in opposite directions can ever meet at the right moment. It's a slow, elegiac drama built for patient viewers who like their emotion earned and their runtime generous. Those craving Fincher's thriller edge should look elsewhere; this is his most tender, wistful work, better suited to a reflective evening than a restless one.