Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flickers in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer (Cate Blanchett). Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is the story of a Southern outcast with a loud, adage-spouting mother. He grows up to cruise the waters with a cranky shipmate, serve his country during a tumultuous war, fall hopelessly in love with his childhood sweetheart and witness some key moments in American history.
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