Director: Lee Daniels Writers: Danny Strong, Wil Haygood (article) Stars: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack | See full cast and crew
Storyline
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 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
Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own.
As his wife, Gloria, struggles with her addictions and his defiant
eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether
he should take action in his own way.
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