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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #3 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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#3. The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button

Director: David Fincher
Writers: Eric Roth (Munich)
Producers: Ceán Chaffin, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

The Gist: Based on a fabled short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald called
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,”, this chronicles an old man who
physically ages backward. At age 50, he falls in love with a 30-year-old woman
and then must come to terms with the relationship as they literally grow in
opposite directions.

Fact: This one cost a ton to make: 150
million dollars, partly due to the CGI effects used to reverse the aging in Brad
Pitt’s character.

See It: All fans of David Fincher owe it to him to see and support this film after what happened with the complete disregard for one of the better films of the year in Zodiac.

Release Date/Status?: November 26th. Big fat X on my calender.

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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