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