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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
Minka Kelly
Jackie Kennedy
James Marsden
John F. Kennedy
John Cusack
Richard Nixon
Forest Whitaker
Cecil Gaines
Robin Williams
Dwight Eisenhower
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Carter Wilson
Alan Rickman
Ronald Reagan
Liev Schreiber
Lyndon B. Johnson
Terrence Howard
Howard
Mariah Carey
Hattie Pearl
Jane Fonda
Nancy Reagan
Joe Chrest
White Usher
Jesse Williams
Rev. James Lawson
Yaya DaCosta
Carol Hammie
Elijah Kelley
Charlie Gaines (15-18)
Vanessa Redgrave
Annabeth Westfall
Colman Domingo
Freddie Fallows
Alex Pettyfer
Thomas Westfall
Dana Gourrier
Helen Holloway
Mo McRae
Eldridge Huggins
Alex Manette
Bob Haldeman
Oprah Winfrey
Gloria Gaines
Danny Strong
Freedom Bus Journalist
Lenny Kravitz
James Holloway
David Oyelowo
Louis Gaines
Michael Rainey Jr.
Cecil Gaines (8)
Robert Aberdeen
Herbert Brownell
Jim Gleason
R.D. Warner
Stephen Rider
Admiral Rochon
Nelsan Ellis
Martin Luther King Jr.
Aml Ameen
Cecil Gaines (15)
Olivia Washington
Olivia
Xosha Roquemore
Foxy (uncredited)
Nealla Gordon
Senator Kassebaum
James DuMont
Sherman Adams
Adriane Lenox
Gina
David Banner
Earl Gaines
Danny Cosmo
Clarence Williams III
Maynard
Pernell Walker
Lorraine
Colin Walker
John Ehrlichman
Isaac White
Charlie Gaines (10)
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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