This is an Oscar Caliber movie. Amazing acting and casting all around. It is based on the true story of an Afro American Butler at the White House from I believe 1957 during the Eisenhower Administration to the Reagan or Carter Administration when I believe he retired. I guess I wasn't really clear when he retired. It reminds me in some ways of Forrest Gump in the way it covers what happens in many eras. His father is shot for getting upset by a White Cotton Farmer who just raped his mother in I believe 1926. His mother goes crazy from the whole thing and he leaves as a young man so he won't get shot too like his father did. This is a very moving and searing presentation of the eras I lived through too as a white person during his time at the White House. His younger son was my age and born the same month as me so when he died in Viet Nam it was hard for me to take because more boys died my age in Viet Nam than any other (50,000 total dead then with 250,000 wounded)
Amazing Movie! This one likely will win one or more Oscars.
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