, 2h46 Directed byDavid Fincher OriginUSA GenresDrama, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Romance ThemesSeafaring films, Transport films, Vieillesse, Political films ActorsBrad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Robert Towers, Tom Everett, Julia Ormond Roles le général Winson Rating77% In 2005, elderly Daisy Fuller is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital; she asks her daughter, Caroline, to read aloud from the diary of Benjamin Button. From the reading, we learn that on the evening of November 11, 1918, a boy is born with the appearance and physical maladies of an elderly man. The baby's mother died after giving birth, and the father, Thomas Button, abandons the infant on the porch of a nursing home. Queenie and Mr. "Tizzy" Weathers, workers at the nursing home, find the baby, and Queenie decides to care of him as her own.