Movie

The Butler

2013★ 7.3

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.

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Cast

Forest WhitakerCecil Gaines

Oprah WinfreyGloria Gaines

David OyelowoLouis Gaines

John CusackRichard Nixon

Jane FondaNancy Reagan

Cuba Gooding Jr.Carter Wilson

Mariah CareyHattie Pearl

Terrence HowardHoward

Lenny KravitzJames Holloway

Aml AmeenCecil Gaines (15)

Michael Rainey Jr.Cecil Gaines (8)

James MarsdenJohn F. Kennedy

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