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Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The (BD)

“I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins “The Curious Ca se of Benjamin Button,” adapted from the 1920s story by F. S cott Fitzge rald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We f ollow his story, set i n New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century , following his journey that is as unu sual as any man’s life can be. D irected by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swi nton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, “Benjamin Button,” is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and p laces he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, t he joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.