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.

Some call it the “Benjamin Button Special;” others the “old man” cut. In either case, it’s supposed to be the cure for a misbehaving boy. A little bit of shame to get him back on track.

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 film follows Gabby and her family, as well as Nicky Freeman, a middle-aged Australian in the body of a 10-year-old, as they try to unravel the medical mystery.. They are Benjamin Button ...

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 ...