“Benjamin Button” Now on DVD

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button will be released on DVD today and, if you haven’t seen it already, I encourage you to pick up a copy.  The film stars Brad Pitt in the title role as a man who was born with all the physical characteristics of an elderly person and then goes through his lifetime aging backwards. 

It’s interesting because it shows the striking similarities between the beginning and the end of the life cycle and focuses on the importance of what happens in the middle.  Things definitely get more complicated when Benjamin falls in love with Daisy (Cate Blanchett).

The film is visually stunning, well-directed, incredibly written and masterfully executed by all of the actors.  I can’t even begin to explain how amazing the make-up was, with the artists managing to make Brad Pitt look old and wrinkly and them remarkably shaving about 10 years off the faces of both Pitt and Blanchett.

Benjamin Button won three Oscars and garnered another 24 awards and 68 nominations.

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