THE BUTLER

THE BUTLER

 

	Srarring

Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines
Oprah Winfrey as Gloria Gaines Cecil's wife.
Mariah Carey as Hattie Pearl
Terrence Howard as Howard
Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Carter Wilson the fast-talking head butler at the White House who becomes a longtime friend of Cecil's
Robin Williams as Dwight D. Eisenhower the 34th President of the United States
James DuMont as Sherman Adams, Eisenhower's White House Chief of Staff
James Marsden as John F. Kennedy the 35th President of the United States
Minka Kelly as First Lady Jackie Kennedy
Liev Schreiber as Lyndon B. Johnson the 36th President of the United States
John Cusack as Richard Nixon the 37th President of the United States
Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan the 40th President of the United States
Jane Fonda as First Lady Nancy Reagan

 

 

 

The film begins in 2009, as an elderly Cecil Gaines recounts his life story, while waiting at the White House to meet the newly inaugurated President. Gaines was raised on a cotton plantation in 1926 Macon, Georgia, by his sharecropping parents. One day, the farm's owner, Thomas Westfall, rapes Cecil's mother, Hattie Pearl. Cecil's father confronts Westfall, and is shot dead. Cecil is taken in by Annabeth Westfall, the estate's caretaker, and trains Cecil as a house servant.

 

 

Verdict: Really good film                                            

             Big cast

             Brilliant performance from Forest