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   Is the Butler a true story?

   • (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” a fictionalized version of White House butler Eugene Allen’s life, powerfully makes visible the invisible man. This story of conflict and reconciliation also makes visible something that is mostly invisible in American films: The African-American nuclear family.

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   Who is the director of the Butler?

   • Lee Daniels — the director of THE BUTLER. One walks out of the theater after seeing Lee Daniels’ The Butler with the distinct feeling of being both powerfully moved and overwhelmed. At the end of the day, director Daniels tries to fit way too much history into a film that begged for fewer and more focused relationships and storylines.

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   Why is Cecil the Butler a good movie?

   • Cecil’s journey to the front lines is the emotional heart of the film. Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey in LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER. Cecil’s emergence as a much-admired White House butler, serving seven presidents, is where the movie runs into narrative walls.

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   Who plays Cecil Gaines in the Butler?

   • “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” is a fictionalized version of Allen’s life that casts Forest Whitaker in the title role as Cecil Gaines. The film powerfully makes visible this invisible man who wears one face on the job and another as the moderate father of a radical son during a politically polarized period of American history.

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   Aug 9, 2013 · Aug 8, 2013 9:01pm PT. Film Review: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’. This sprawling, highly fictional biopic of longtime White House butler Eugene Allen is at once gratuitously sentimental and...

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   Aug 12, 2013 · “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” a fictionalized version of White House butler Eugene Allen’s life, powerfully makes visible the invisible man. This story of conflict and reconciliation also makes visible something that is mostly invisible in American films: The African-American nuclear family.

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   Aug 16, 2013 · Lee Daniels' The Butler - Metacritic. 2013. PG-13. The Weinstein Company. 2 h 12 m. Summary Lee Daniels' The Butler looks at the life of a White House butler who served eight presidents from 1952 to 1986 and had a unique front-row seat during a tumultuous period of American history. Biography. Drama. Written By: Danny Strong, Wil Haygood.

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   • Director: Lee Daniels

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   • Actors: Forest Whitaker

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   Aug 16, 2013 · Summary: Based on the true story of Eugene Allen, Lee Daniels' The Butler follows Cecil Gaines, who served eight presidents at the White House throughout the most transformative times in...

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   "Lee Daniels' The Butler" is inspired by the real-life story of a black man who worked in the White House for decades, serving eight Presidents from Truman to Reagan. Born in the Jim Crow-era South of lynchings and segregation, Eugene Allen lived long enough to cast a vote for Barack Obama.

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   Aug 15, 2013 · An ambitious and overdue attempt to create a Hollywood-style epic around the experience of black Americans in general and the civil rights movement in particular, it undercuts itself by hitting its...

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   Aug 20, 2013 · By Glenn Rifkin. Lee Daniels — the director of THE BUTLER. One walks out of the theater after seeing Lee Daniels’ The Butler with the distinct feeling of being both powerfully moved and overwhelmed.