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Watch: The Butler 2013 123movies, Full Movie Online – Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper’s son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with her addictions and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way..
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 115,712
	71% | RottenTomatoes
	65/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 2626 Popularity: 16.512 | TMDB

Reviews:

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I’ll start by stating that I’m a 62 year old white male. I did not grow up in the South – but I did live for a year in Louisiana in the early 70’s. I lived through every news event that was portrayed in the movie – that is, I saw and read about them in the actual news when these things happened. Many posters on the boards say that the movie is inaccurate. Then they go on to say things like: His name was changed, he didn’t have 2 sons, he didn’t look anything like Forest Whitaker, Nixon was miscast, etc. True, the details of The Butler’s family life have been dramatized. That is called movie making. The movie was historically accurate in every important way. I don’t say that every single detail was true, nor am I saying the portrayal of these historical events was 100% exactly as portrayed. But it is far more accurate (and important) than your average popcorn POS that pervades the theaters these days. I want to state that I have rarely, if ever, been as emotionally affected by any movie. It is brilliant, provocative, artistic, and has a social purpose. Like it or not, persons of African descent have been victimized, downtrodden, brutalized, persecuted, tortured, lynched, raped, and murdered – and only because of their skin color. HOORAY to Lee Daniels for making this movie! Hooray to Forest for being a sensitive, intelligent, highly gifted actor. Hooray to Oprah, whose performance is beyond stellar. Hooray to anyone involved with this movie. Not to say that ALL movies have to take you to the places that this movie does. I guess there is a place for Pacific Rim and Wolverine. So if you think that movies have no business delving into our racist and brutal history, then see one of those movies. But to say that this movie is irrelevant or inaccurate – well, as I said I lived through it all. It is not. What it is, is an exceptional, mature movie for those that want a little more than monsters (the fictional kind). My wife and I went through a whole packet of tissues – we were blubbering like fools. BRAVO!!!!! 9 (rather than 10) stars only because the 10 star reviews are often discounted as over- the-top hero worship. But if Ironman, The Avengers, etc are 10 stars (and I liked those), this movie rates 100 stars – because it is 10X better, more important, more relevant, and more thought provoking.

It’s not exploitative, it’s history!
‘LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER’: Four Stars (Out of Five)

Historical drama film about the battle for civil rights from director Lee Daniels (Daniels also helmed the films ‘PRECIOUS’ and ‘THE PAPERBOY’). It tells the story of a African-American butler who served at the White House for 34 years and witnessed several major events in the civil rights movement during the 20th century. The film was written by Danny Strong and based on the Washington Post article “A Butler Well Served By This Election” by Wil Haygood (and based on the life of Eugene Allen). Forest Whitaker stars in the film as ‘the butler’ and Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo, Elijah Kelley, Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey, Robin Williams, John Cusack, James Marsden, Liev Schreiber, Alan Rickman, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Alex Pettyfer and many others co-star. It’s a powerful look at the struggle for equal rights, a little unevenly paced but still a well made film.

Whitaker plays Cecil Gaines in the film, a butler who served eight different presidents at the White House during the 20th century. The film begins with him as a boy working as a slave at a cotton farm when his mother (Carey) is raped and his father (David Banner) is murdered. Cecil is then brought up as a house slave by the home’s caretaker (Redgrave). As he grows to adulthood he leaves the farm out of fear of being killed and finds a job at a bakery (he breaks into). He then finds employment at the White House while raising two sons with his wife Gloria (Winfrey). As he watches big moments in civil rights (and in history) take place, from his job at the White House, his eldest son (Oyelowo) takes part in them.

As others have said the movie is a lot like ‘FORREST GUMP’ except from an African-American butler’s point of view rather than a naive Alabama momma’s boy. Forest Whitaker gives one of the best performances of his career and the rest of the cast is exceptional as well (I really liked watching all the various actors depict different U.S. presidents). I also really like Lee Daniel’s directing; I thought ‘PRECIOUS’ was really well made and effective and ‘THE PAPERBOY’ was an extremely entertaining B movie. It’s shocking to see all the negative comments about this film (and films like it) on movie message boards. Racists and simple minded idiots are so upset that a movie like this tells the truth and actually shows how horrible the majority of whites used to be to people of other colors. They want to pretend like it never happened and somehow blame minorities for their problems (that whites created for them). It is painful to watch but it’s a necessary pain. It’s not exploitative, like a lot of bigots like to say, it’s history and this film does a great job of painting a picture of how it really was. Despite it’s slow pacing at times it is a well made movie and a brilliantly acted one.

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Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 12 min (132 min)
Budget 25000000
Revenue 115922175
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Biography, Drama
Director Lee Daniels
Writer Danny Strong, Wil Haygood
Actors Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 2 BAFTA 16 wins & 55 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex 435, Panavision Primo Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL2, Panavision Primo Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Primo and Angenieux Optimo Lenses
Laboratory Cineworks, New Orleans (LA), USA, Technicolor PostWorks, New York (NY), USA (digital intermediate)
Film Length 3,620 m (7 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision3 50D 5203, Vision3 250D 5207, Fuji Eterna Vivid 160T 8543, Eterna 250D 8563, Eterna 500T 8573)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 35 (3-perf) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (spherical) (Kodak Vision 2383), D-Cinema