The curious case of Benjamin Button
Record details
- ISBN: 1415748616
- ISBN: 9781415748619
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Physical Description:
videorecording](DVD
videodisc
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. - Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2009]
Content descriptions
General Note: | From the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Originally released as a motion picture in 2008. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | LICENSED FOR HOME USE ONLY |
Creation/Production Credits Note: | Director of photography, Claudio Miranda ; editors, Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall ; music, Alexandre Desplat. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Jared Harris, Elias Koteas, Phyllis Somerville, Tilda Swinton. |
Target Audience Note: | MPAA rating: PG-13; for brief war violence, sexual content, language and smoking. PARENTAL GUIDANCE - MATURE THEME Manitoba Film Classification Board |
System Details Note: | DVD, widescreen; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround. |
Language Note: | English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned. |
Search for related items by subject
Genre: | Fantasy films. Detective and mystery films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Feature films. |
Available copies
- 11 of 11 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 11 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Creston Public Library | DVD FIC CUR (Text)
Acquisition Type: Donated |
35140001141640 | Fiction Videos | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Video Librarian Reviews : Video Librarian Reviews
Very loosely adapted from a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the multiple-Oscar-nominated The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a tour de force for star Brad Pitt and director David Fincher. The story begins in New Orleans, circa 1918, with the birth of an infant who exhibits the physical characteristics of an octogenarianâa birth that leaves the mother dead and the father so distraught that he quickly deposits the newborn on the doorstep of a nearby home for the elderly, where a goodhearted caregiver named Queenie (Taraji P. Henson) christens him Benjamin and raises the child as her own. Initially infirm and pathetically fragile in his early childhood, Benjamin grows strongerâand youngerâwith each passing year, eventually leaving home to work as a seaman and travel the world, before returning stateside to enjoy an on-again-off-again romance with Daisy (Cate Blanchett), the beautiful dancer he knew when both were (on the inside, at least) impressionable children. As Benjamin continues to age backward, his bizarre gift becomes a curse as those whom he has known and loved grow old and die. Told mostly in flashback, the film uses a framing device in which the aged Daisy lies on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital, reminiscing about her life with her fully grown daughter (Julia Ormond) as Hurricane Katrina races towards the Louisiana coast. The near-three-hour The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is not a genuine cinematic masterpieceâEric Roth's screenplay features too many banal aphorisms of the Forrest Gump type ("You never know what's coming for you") and Benjamin himself seems oddly distant at timesâbut in a year boasting few exemplary titles, this one was one of the best and easily the most ambitious. Highly recommended. (E. Hulse) Copyright Video Librarian Reviews 2009.