2009 02 20 - The curious case of benjamin button

The curious case of benjamin button
Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: Some sexual references
Genre: Drama
Language: English with Chinese subtitles
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Brad Pitt, Malcolm McDowell, Cate Blanchett, Elias Koteas, Jason Flemyng, Peter Bergman
Runtime: 166 min

"I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 follow his story set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be - a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.