| Released | 2013 | Rating | 12A in UK |
| Director | Lee Daniels | Writer/s | Danny Strong |
| Starring | Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Mariah Carey, Vanessa Redgrave, David Oyelowo, Cuba Gooding Jr, Lenny Kravitz, Robin Williams, John Cusack, Liev Schreiber, Alan Rickman, Jane Fonda. | ||
| Source of story | Inspired by real events and an article by Wil Haygood in the Washington Post about the real butler. | ||
| Elevator Pitch | A sharecropper’s son is trained to become a “house nigger” in the 1930s and moves on up to become a butler in the White House, serving eight presidents. | ||
| Content | The terrible treatment of black people in the south is portrayed, and this is a theme of the film, contrasting the calm disciplined service in the White House with the fight for negro rights in which the butler’s son is taking part in the 1960s. | ||
| A View | Apparently the whole of the background to the main theme was made up, but it works well and keeps you engaged while watching a number of important film actors taking on the presidential roles including Robin Williams as Eisenhower and Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan. | ||
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