Overview - The Butler
Date of release
Budget
$25,000,000.00
Revenue
$177,313,795.00
Spoken Languages
- English
Production companies
Name: Follow Through Productions
Production country United States of America
Name: Salamander Pictures
Production country
Name: Laura Ziskin Productions
Production country United States of America
Name: Lee Daniels Entertainment
Production country United States of America
Name: Pam Williams Productions
Production country
Name: Windy Hill Pictures
Production country United States of America
Overview
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 alcoholism and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.
Cast
Name: Forest Whitaker
Character: Cecil Gaines
Popularity: 3.5041
Name: Oprah Winfrey
Character: Gloria Gaines
Popularity: 1.2955
Name: David Oyelowo
Character: Louis Gaines
Popularity: 1.8341
Name: John Cusack
Character: Richard Nixon
Popularity: 2.9473
Name: Jane Fonda
Character: Nancy Reagan
Popularity: 2.3175
Name: Cuba Gooding Jr.
Character: Carter Wilson
Popularity: 2.4973
Name: Mariah Carey
Character: Hattie Pearl
Popularity: 1.707
Name: Terrence Howard
Character: Howard
Popularity: 2.7642
