The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Soundtrack

Synopsis: On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams (nee Fuller) is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards, being diagnosed with several aging diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival, but who does survive and gets younger with time. Abandoned by his biological father, Thomas Button, after Benjamin's biological mother died in childbirth, Benjamin was raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident at that home, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when in age they finally match up. Some of the revelations in
Director(s): David Fincher
Production: Paramount
  Won 3 Oscars. Another 77 wins & 155 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
72%
PG-13
Year:
2008
166 min
$127,490,802
Website
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1A New Life3:39
2Alone at Night2:33
3Basin Street Blues7:34
4Coming home0:12
5Dear Old Southland3:17
6Freight Train Blues5:35
7Growing Younger2:14
8How old are you?0:12
9If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)3:35
10It Was Nice To Have Met You1:43
11Love Returns1:44
12My Prayer2:46
13Nothing Lasts2:54
14Out of Nowhere3:00
15Postcards2:51
16Skokiaan2:38
17Stay Out of My Life1:44
18The Accident2:38
19The Hummingbird2:35

Eric Roth

Eric Roth (born March 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump (1994). He also co-wrote the screenplays for several Oscar-nominated films: The Insider (1999), Munich (2005), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). more…

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