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