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Loosely based on the real life of Eugene Allen, who worked in the White House for decades, the film stars Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, an African-American ...

The Butler

PG-13 · 2013 ‧ Thriller/Drama ‧ 2h 12m
7.2/10 · IMDb 72% · Rotten Tomatoes 65% · Metacritic
After leaving the South as a young man and finding employment at an elite hotel in Washington, D.C., Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker) gets the opportunity of a lifetime when he is hired as a butler at the White House. Over the course of three...
Release date: August 16, 2013 (USA)
Director: Lee Daniels
Distributed by: The Weinstein Company
Based on: "A Butler Well Served By This Election"; by Wil Haygood
Box office: $177.3 million
Production companies: Laura Ziskin Productions; Windy Hill Pictures; Follow Through Productions; Salamander Pictures; Pam Williams Productions

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