The Butler (2013) — drama film. Directed by Lee Daniels. Starring Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo, John Cusack. This page maps 4 characters and 6 relationships between them as an interactive character network. Rated 7.3/10 from 3,066 votes.
Interactive Features for The Butler
The Butler offers interactive tools beyond traditional movie databases:
Character Relationship Map
— Interactive D3-powered visualization of character connections, alliances, and conflicts. Explore how 4 characters interconnect through 6 relationship links.
A lifelong servant navigates American political history while reconciling with his family's civil rights activism.
Drama · 7.3/10 · 132 min · 2013
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.
