Benjamin has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
12 December 1943, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
21 August 1963, New York City, New York, USA
15 December 1998, Houston, Texas, USA
9 September 1980, Covington, Louisiana, USA
24 June 1959, Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkar ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia]
28 July 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
5 July 1956, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
28 August 1970, Fort Ord, California, USA
6 February 1977, Diana, West Virginia, USA
4 January 1965, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
23 September 1976, Florida, USA
7 February 1926, New York, USA
December 12, 2015
There are worse films than The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and those 15 masterful minutes may well justify the price of admission. But there's a lot of movie before and after Swinton's cameo.December 30, 2008
Mostly, the film is an orgy of excess, in which Fincher indulges his passion for luxuriant image-making, with little regard for whether the story merits (or can withstand) such grandiose treatment.December 30, 2008
There's leisure to the storytelling, a splendor that captures the movie's celebratory but also melancholy ideas about our time on this mortal coil.February 05, 2009
An epic, melancholic romance that employs a multi-generational cast and groundbreaking visual effects. It's a testament to Fincher's skill as a storyteller that the film actually works, albeit sporadically.December 29, 2008
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leaves you colder than it should, and it shouldn't leave you cold at all.October 21, 2014
A man who ages backwards will never be able to bond to another person in a truly meaningful way. We can barely be expected to return affection that isn't there.June 22, 2013
Everything sure is pretty, but I'm not sure this movie has anything to say.July 19, 2015
Converts an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man aging backward into an overly long exercise in pseudo-profundity bearing little resemblance to its source.October 07, 2015
One troubling thing is the pedophile overtone that runs throughout the film.August 16, 2011
One of the best half-movies of the year.January 02, 2009
With a running time of almost three slow-going hours, the movie definitely makes you feel as though you're aging forward.December 29, 2008
Fincher's visual mastery and Pitt's charisma almost compensate for a gimmick in search of a meaning. The more time Fincher gives viewers with Button, the thinner the character grows.