I’m not so sure The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has enough curiosity to merit the title. David Fincher’s epic tale is too short on imagination to rival similarly epic lifelong tales Forrest Gump and Big Fish.

Directed by: David Fincher
Written by: David Giler, Walter Hill, Larry Ferguson
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover, Ralph Brown, Danny Webb, Christopher John Fields, Holt McCallany, Lance Henriksen, Christopher Fairbank, Pete Postlethwaite
Released: 1992 / Genre: Science-fiction Horror / Country: USA / IMDB
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