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A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.

A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made. (less)

Director: Lee Daniels
Writers: Danny Strong, Wil Haygood
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Mariah Carey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding Jr.
Producer: Pamela Oas Williams

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Review by Brian Orndorf, August 15, 2013

7 / 10

�Lee Daniels� The Butler� is the official title of this picture due to ridiculous studio tensions that forced distributor The Weinstein Company to make a slight alteration to the label to prevent additional retitling banality. Turns out, the Lee Daniels brand on the feature is more appropriate than previously imagined, as �The Butler� is sopping wet with his filmmaking DNA, forgoing a clean sense of history and timing to slosh around numerous eras and interactions, almost forming a narrative by accident. It could some extra baking time in an editing suite, but the movie is undeniably passionat ...read more...

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