Benjamin’s mother dies during labor, and his father, a well-to-do New Orleans button manufacturer, is so horrified by his “deformed” son that he abandons the child on the steps of an old ...

As Benjamin grows into childhood, he still has the look and infirmities of a very old man. To show that on screen, the film resorts to digital wizardry, to at times placing Pitt’s computer-aged ...

The button is a perfect symbol for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” Simple and old-fashioned, yet somehow timeless. None of the cheap shortcuts of the zipper or – shudder – Velcro.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Carolyn Kellogg jumps into the discussion of ‘The Curious Case of ...

Benjamin (Brad Pitt) gets his last name from his button-manufacturing father (Jason Flemyng) who, horrified by the sight of his bizarre baby, abandons him on the steps of a New Orleans old-age ...

Benjamin is born in 1860, not 1918, and fights in the Spanish-American War, not World War II. Daisy, Benjamin’s love interest, is named Hildegarde and isn’t a dancer. More to the point, she ...

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," considered sentimental slop to some, is an Oscar frontrunner with 13 nominations. If it wins, it will follow other sentimental favorites like "Titanic" and ...

Central NY News; Barber humiliates misbehaving boys with old man haircut, 'Benjamin Button Special' Published: ; Feb. 04, 2015, 3:26 p.m.

While watching "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" -- all 167(!) minutes of it -- I kept thinking of Joni Mitchell's song "The Circle Game" and its rueful, poignant chorus: ...