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The Butler (full title Lee Daniels' The Butler) is a 2013 American historical drama film directed and produced by Lee Daniels and written by Danny Strong. Loosely based on the real life of Eugene Allen, the film stars Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, an African-American who is a witness of notable political and social events of the 20th century during his 34-year tenure serving as a White House butler. In addition to Whitaker, the film's all-star cast also features Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terrence Howard, Lenny Kravitz, James Marsden, David Oyelowo, Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Rickman, Liev Schreiber, Robin Williams, and Clarence Williams III. It was the last film produced by Laura Ziskin, who died in 2011.
The film was theatrically released by The Weinstein Company on August 16, 2013, to mostly positive reviews and grossing over $176 million worldwide against a budget of $30 million.
In 2009, an elderly Cecil Gaines recounts his life story, while waiting at the White House to meet the newly inaugurated president.
A butler is a domestic worker in a large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments with the butler in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantry. Some also have charge of the entire parlour floor, and housekeepers caring for the entire house and its appearance. A butler is usually male, and in charge of male servants, while a housekeeper is usually a woman, and in charge of female servants. Traditionally, male servants (such as footmen) were rarer and therefore better paid and of higher status than female servants. The butler, as the senior male servant, has the highest servant status. He can also be sometimes used as a chauffeur.
In older houses where the butler is the most senior worker, titles such as majordomo, butler administrator, house manager, manservant, staff manager, chief of staff, staff captain, estate manager and head of household staff are sometimes given. The precise duties of the employee will vary to some extent in line with the title given, but perhaps, more importantly in line with the requirements of the individual employer. In the grandest homes or when the employer owns more than one residence, there is sometimes an estate manager of higher rank than the butler.
Forest Steven Whitaker III (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, director, and producer.
He has earned a reputation for intensive character study work for films such as Bird, Platoon, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai and Lee Daniels' The Butler, for his work in independent films and for his recurring role as LAPD Internal Affairs Lieutenant Jon Kavanaugh on the Emmy Award-winning television series The Shield.
Whitaker won the Academy Award, British Academy Film Award, Golden Globe Award, National Board of Review Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and various critics groups awards for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film The Last King of Scotland.
Whitaker was born July 15, 1961, in Longview, Texas. His family moved to Carson, California when he was four. His father, Forest Steven Jr., was an insurance salesman. Forest's mother, Laura Francis (née Smith), was a special education teacher who put herself through college and earned two master's degrees while raising her children. Whitaker has two younger brothers, Kenn and Damon, and an older sister, Deborah.
Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian. Starting as a stand-up comedian in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, he is credited with leading San Francisco's comedy renaissance. After rising to fame as Mork in the sitcom Mork & Mindy (1978–82), he went on to establish a career in both stand-up comedy and feature film acting. He was known for his improvisational skills.
After his film debut in the musical comedy Popeye (1980), he starred or co-starred in widely acclaimed films, including the comedy-drama The World According to Garp (1982), war comedy Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), dramas Dead Poets Society (1989) and Awakenings (1990), comedy-drama The Fisher King (1991), the animated musical-fantasy Aladdin (1992), drama Good Will Hunting (1997), and psychological thriller One Hour Photo (2002), as well as financial successes such as the fantasy adventure film Hook (1991), comedy Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), fantasy adventure Jumanji (1995), comedy The Birdcage (1996), and the Night at the Museum trilogy.
John Paul Cusack (/ˈkjuːsæk/, born June 28, 1966) is an American actor, producer and screenwriter. Cusack appeared in several teen films in the mid-1980s, most notably Better Off Dead (1985), before he starred in Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy-drama Say Anything... in 1989. He later starred in High Fidelity (2000), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. Cusack is also known for his performances in the films Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Being John Malkovich (1999), 1408 (2007), 2012 (2009), Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) and The Raven (2012).
Cusack was born to a Catholic Irish-American family in Evanston, Illinois. His mother, Ann Paula "Nancy" (née Carolan), is a former mathematics teacher and political activist. His father, Richard Cusack (1925–2003), was an actor, as are Cusack's siblings Ann, Joan, Bill and Susie. Richard was also a documentary filmmaker who owned a film production company and was a friend of activist Philip Berrigan. Cusack graduated from Evanston Township High School in 1984, where he met Jeremy Piven, and spent a year at New York University before dropping out, saying that he had "too much fire in his belly".
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Genres: Comedy, Short,The Butler starring Alex Pettyfer, John Cusack, Robin Williams direct by Lee Daniels. Synopsis: The film will revolve around the true story of an African-American butler who served at the White House. The film is based off the story A Butler Well Served By This Election, written by Wil Haygood. The story revolved around Eugene Allen, who was a Presidential butler from 1952 to 1986, and is paralleled with the election of Barack Obama Director: Lee Daniels Cast: Alex Pettyfer, John Cusack, Robin Williams, James Marsden, Alan Rickman, Minka Kelly, Jesse Williams, Liev Schreiber Release Date: October 18th, 2013 Genre: Drama Check our Website: http://www.ultimenotizieflash.com/cinema/ Click to subscribe: http://bit.ly/GDFpEk Here you'll find Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, Celebrity Intervie...
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The man who inspired "The Butler" worked for eight presidents during more than 30 years in the White House. More from CNN at http://www.cnn.com/
One of the important events in history is the burning down of the freedom bus. It is obviously seen how USA once was a free country. Tarihin önemli olaylarından birisidir özgürlük otobüsünün yakılması. Dünyaya medeniyet ve özgürlük ihracı yaptığını söyleyen ABD'nin fazla değil 90 yıl öncesine kadar yaptığı ırkçılık bir zamanların gerici devletinin yobazlığını unutmamamız açısından önemli olsa gerek diye düşünüyorum.
A scene from the movie "The Butler" wich shows the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
DA MAGGIO DISPONIBILE IN DVD, BLU RAY e SULLE PIATTAFORME DIGITALI. Un cast senza precedenti per una storia straordinaria, quanto universale: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Lenny Kravitz, James Marsden, David Oyelowo, Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Rickman, Liev Schreiber, Robin Williams, Alex Pettyfer, Mariah Carey. Per il suo nuovo film Lee Daniels, (candidato Premio Oscar per "Precious") prende spunto dall'articolo di Wil Haygood "A Butler Well Served by This Election" pubblicato sul Washington Post e diventato poi un libro edito in Italia da Newton Compton. Interpretato da un potente Forest Whitaker (Premio Oscar per "L'ultimo re di Scozia") THE BUTLER-UN MAGGIORDOMO ALLA CASA BIANCA è dedicato ad un uomo molto speciale: Eugene Al...
DEMOLITION DERBY AT THE BUTLER COUNTY FAIR IN BUTLER PA
Good Day
This is the english butler for young master Thomas Lee
Unfortunetly he is away presently but i will deliver your messege on my silver platter just as
soon as i finish picking up all these silk stockings, garter belts, panties and high heels
The visitors do seem to leave a lot of those behind
He mumbled something about rocking two years on the road with Motley Crue
But it also could of been (beep) two bits of gear on the roof with a shapely broom
You know these pop rock stars today
Anyway at the pop of a champagne cork leave your messege and your humble servant will make sure
that the real mr. rich and famous gets it