The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Book vs. Movie
David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) is loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 short story. Brad Pitt plays a man who grows physically younger as the people he loves grow older.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Year
- 1922
- Pages
- 24Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 1 hr 5 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Kevin Killavey
The Buttons expect an ordinary baby, but their son arrives looking and speaking like an elderly man. His father tries to conceal the embarrassment and raise him according to convention, even as Benjamin grows physically younger each year. School, work, and marriage bring fresh complications for someone whose age never matches the place society expects him to occupy.
- Director
- David Fincher
- Writer
- Robin Swicord, Eric Roth
- Year
- 2008
- Runtime
- 2 hr 46 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton
- Genre
- Drama, Fantasy, Romance, speculative fiction
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Born with the body of an old man, Benjamin Button grows up in a New Orleans home for the elderly and gradually becomes younger. His travels take him away from Daisy, a girl he meets in childhood whose life keeps crossing his own. As their relationship develops, they face the difficulty of sharing a future while their bodies move in opposite directions.
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