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The Butler
2013, Aug 16
2h 12m
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.
Directed by
Lee Daniels
Written by
Danny Strong
Yaya DaCosta
Carol Hammie
James Marsden
John F. Kennedy
Robin Williams
Dwight Eisenhower
Forest Whitaker
Cecil Gaines
Minka Kelly
Jackie Kennedy
John Cusack
Richard Nixon
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Carter Wilson
Robert Aberdeen
Herbert Brownell
Alan Rickman
Ronald Reagan
Liev Schreiber
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jane Fonda
Nancy Reagan
Terrence Howard
Howard
Alex Pettyfer
Thomas Westfall
Mo McRae
Eldridge Huggins
Colman Domingo
Freddie Fallows
Danny Strong
Freedom Bus Journalist
Jesse Williams
Rev. James Lawson
David Banner
Earl Gaines
Vanessa Redgrave
Annabeth Westfall
Danny Cosmo
David Oyelowo
Louis Gaines
Alex Manette
Bob Haldeman
Elijah Kelley
Charlie Gaines (15-18)
Dana Gourrier
Helen Holloway
Oprah Winfrey
Gloria Gaines
Olivia Washington
Olivia
Mariah Carey
Hattie Pearl
Joe Chrest
White Usher
Lenny Kravitz
James Holloway
Clarence Williams III
Maynard
Nelsan Ellis
Martin Luther King Jr.
Aml Ameen
Cecil Gaines (15)
Colin Walker
John Ehrlichman
Adriane Lenox
Gina
Pernell Walker
Lorraine
Jim Gleason
R.D. Warner
Xosha Roquemore
Foxy (uncredited)
Michael Rainey Jr.
Cecil Gaines (8)
James DuMont
Sherman Adams
Isaac White
Charlie Gaines (10)
Nealla Gordon
Senator Kassebaum
Stephen Rider
Admiral Rochon
Tarra Riggs
Sophie Wilson (uncredited)
LaJessie Smith
Abraham
John P. Fertitta
Mr. Jenkins
Margaret M. Owens
Woolworth Diner Patron #1
Eric Ducote
Woolworth Diner Patron #2
Chloe Barach
Caroline Kennedy
Clara Hopkins Daniels
Freedom Bus Rider
Shirley Pugh
Malcolm X Goer
Bill Newman
Pastor
Rusty Robertson
Senator Robertson
Cariella Smith
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