Director : Lee Daniels
Running Time : 133 mins
Cecil Gaines (Whitaker) takes a job as a butler to the White House in order to support his family, and serves under eight presidents. During his time at the White House, Cecil experiences many changes in American society, including the civil rights movement and the Vietnam war, and is faced with the idea that his children will be the ones shaping the future of America as he continues to serve those who run the country.
I enjoyed this movie in parts, and those parts tended to have nothing to do with Whitaker in the lead role. The promotion for this movie make out that his character is the one making all the changes to American society, but moreover it seems to be his children. The only thing Gaines does in the movie to make change is argue for equal pay at the White House, but that’s hardly a big deal when his son is fighting for equal rights in society and his other boy is planning on fighting in Vietnam. And why did they brush over the fact that his wife cheated on him? She needed to be confronted about that particular behaviour.
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