Lee Daniels' The Butler

A compelling, poignant, eye-opening, factually based, star-studded (Vanessa Redgrave, Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr., Clarence Williams III, Lenny Kravitz, and Alex Pettyfer), 132-minute film that chronicles the life of Cecil Gaines (Aml Ameen/Michael Rainey Jr./Forest Whitaker) from his difficult childhood working in the cotton fields with his parents (Mariah Carey and David Banner) in Macon, Ga., in the 1920s to working at the White House serving President Dwight D. Eisenhower (Robin Williams), President John F. Kennedy (James Marsden) and Jackie (Minka Kelly), President Lyndon Johnson (Liev Schreiber), President Richard Nixon (John Cusack), and President Ronald Regan (Alan Rickman) and Nancy (Jane Fonda) while dealing with his alcoholic, jealous wife (Oprah Winfrey) and raising two sons (David Oweloyo and Elijah Kelley), one of whom became estranged when he became involved in the civil rights movement as a college student at Fisk University.
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