Movie reviews: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 19 Articles

by Jay Bamber

Benjamin Button was born under extremely unusual circumstances; he was born into the body of an old man with aching joints and wrinkled skin and blindness, an ailment which led to his parents leaving him on the doorstep of a

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by Elaine Arthur

"You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went. You could swear, curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go."

"You never know what's coming for you."

If these lines sound like something Forrest

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by Gina Lawton

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story originally created by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Screen writer Eric Roth and producer David Fincher take the premise of a person "growing down" from old age to youth and flesh

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by Daniel Hirsh

On December 18, I had the privledge to see a sneak preview this finely polished work of cinema, 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.' After watching an interview with Brad Pitt on Larry King the week before, I was excited to

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by Josh Lipovetsky

Benjamin Button is a long movie, but each second is of equal importance. There are many themes; some dark, and some light. The movie is very sad, but really contains great material. The importance of loyalty towards your friends,

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by Sun Meilan

When Benjamin Button is born, everyone shies away from him in disgust - instead of a pink healthy baby, he is what looks like a little old man. Thankfully, a kind woman called Queenie who runs an old people's home takes Benjamin

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by David Moromisato

How would you cope with life if you were born an old person and lived your existence backwards to infancy? That's the premise of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This story

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by A. Marshall

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is loosely based on a story written in 1921 by F Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby. In a hospital room in New Orleans an elderly woman Daisy (Cate Blanchett) is on her deathbed,

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by Janet Sandford

This film, based on a short story written by F. Scott Fitgerald, is an epic of time. It tells the tale of a child born suffering the weaknesses of old age who lives his life backwards, growing younger with every year that passes.

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by Ashleigh Mchenry

I have to admit, this movie had mecurious, for the lack of a better term, from the first time I saw its trailer. "I was born under unusual circumstances," Is the first line of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,' the F. Scott

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by Louise Lee

I never watched movie by myself. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" has aroused my curiosity to watch it alone. Some movies you've got to watch it alone, that you would have a clear after thought and not to be affected by

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by DN

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Mr Button was born as an old man and grows younger with

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by Vince Ryan

The film is way out of the Best Picture league but it might have a shot for Best Adapted Screenplay. After all it was the inclusion of the Hurricane Katrina scare that made the movie extra savory. Director David Fincher was also

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by Spencer Hawken

Since catching the trailer during mid 2008, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button became one of my personal must see movies. Initially expected to arrive on UK shores at Christmas the movie was delayed slightly for a February 2009

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by Manny The Movie Guy

Brad Pitt returns to the loving arms of director David Fincher in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." The film is their third and best collaboration following "Se7en" and "The Fight Club."

Based on the dark short story by F.

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by Jimmy Nightingale

"I was born into unusual circumstances"

And thus begins a delightful journey into the life of the title character, wonderfully portrayed by Brad Pitt.

Benjamin Button is born old on the day that the First World War (the Great War)

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by Daniel Johnson

"I'm seven but I look much older" Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) says in his early old age upon meeting somebody new. He is, of course, not kidding. He was born a wrinkled wizened man in his 80's, albeit the size of a tiny baby,

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