Completed - Historical, Drama
Year of production : 2012 Director(s) : Lee DANIELS Writer(s) : Danny STRONG, Lee DANIELS Cast : Forest WHITAKER, Oprah WINFREY
A look at the life of Eugene Allen, who served eightpresidents as the White House’s head butler from1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat aspolitical and racial history was made.THE BUTLER is inspired by Wil Haygood’sWashington Post article about an African-Americanman who served as a butler to eight Presidentsin the White House for over thirty years. Fromthis unique vantage point, we trace the dramaticchanges that swept American society from the civilrights movement to Vietnam and beyond, and howthose changes affected this man’s life and family.
Country(ies) : USA
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