The read
A Balasaur Score of 71 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes 72%, Metacritic 65/100. Every source lands within 7 points of the others, across 3,100 audience votes. Scores higher than 77% of the 6,966 2010s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with alcoholism and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.
Ratings
3,077 audience votes
Key crew
- Lee DanielsDirector
- Danny StrongWriter
- Rodrigo LeãoOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Forest WhitakerCecil Gaines
- Oprah WinfreyGloria Gaines
- David OyelowoLouis Gaines
- John CusackRichard Nixon
- Jane FondaNancy Reagan
- Cuba Gooding Jr.Carter Wilson
- Mariah CareyHattie Pearl
- Terrence HowardHoward
- Lenny KravitzJames Holloway
- Aml AmeenCecil Gaines (15)
- Michael Rainey Jr.Cecil Gaines (8)
- James MarsdenJohn F. Kennedy
