The Butler

Synopsis

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.

Trailer

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Cast

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  Forest Whitaker
  Cecil Gaines

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  Oprah Winfrey
  Gloria Gaines

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  David Oyelowo
  Louis Gaines

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  John Cusack
  Richard Nixon

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  Jane Fonda
  Nancy Reagan

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  Cuba Gooding Jr.
  Carter Wilson

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  Mariah Carey
  Hattie Pearl

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  Terrence Howard
  Howard

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  Lenny Kravitz
  James Holloway

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  Aml Ameen
  Cecil Gaines (15)

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  Michael Rainey Jr.
  Cecil Gaines (8)

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  James Marsden
  John F. Kennedy

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  Alex Pettyfer
  Thomas Westfall

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  Vanessa Redgrave
  Annabeth Westfall

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  Alan Rickman
  Ronald Reagan

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  Liev Schreiber
  Lyndon B. Johnson

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  Robin Williams
  Dwight H. Eisenhower

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  Yaya DaCosta
  Carol Hammie