Film

The Butler

2013 · 2h 12m · Drama

One quiet voice can ignite a revolution.

IMDb

7.2

Rotten Tomatoes

72%

Metacritic

65

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 alcoholism and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.

Forest Whitaker

Cecil Gaines

Oprah Winfrey

Gloria Gaines

David Oyelowo

Louis Gaines

John Cusack

Richard Nixon

Jane Fonda

Nancy Reagan

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Carter Wilson

Mariah Carey

Hattie Pearl

Terrence Howard

Howard

Lenny Kravitz

James Holloway

Aml Ameen

Cecil Gaines (15)

Michael Rainey Jr.

Cecil Gaines (8)

James Marsden

John F. Kennedy

Alex Pettyfer

Thomas Westfall

Vanessa Redgrave

Annabeth Westfall

Alan Rickman

Ronald Reagan

Liev Schreiber

Lyndon B. Johnson

• Lee DanielsDirector · Producer
• Danny StrongWriter
• Cassian ElwesProducer
• Buddy PatrickProducer
• Laura ZiskinProducer
• Ari Daniel PinchotProducer
• Harvey WeinsteinExecutive Producer
• Len BlavatnikExecutive Producer
• Bob WeinsteinExecutive Producer
• Andrew DunnDirector of Photography

The Butler Official Trailer #2 (2013) - Forest Whitaker, Robin Williams Movie HD

Release date

August 16, 2013

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 12m

Rated

PG-13

Budget

$25,000,000

Revenue

$177,313,795

Genres

Drama

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