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As part of the Presidents & Potentates series:

The Butler (2013) 132 minutes

In a film based loosely based on the life of Eugene Allen, Forest Whitaker plays Cecil Gaines, a man who survived a harsh upbringing in Jim Crow Georgia and become a butler in the White House. Serving every president from Eisenhower to Reagan, Gaines would be a first-hand observer of history being made, while his own family became caught up in the turbulence of the times.

With an A-Level cast including Oprah Winfrey as Gaine’s wife and Robin Williams, Liev Schrieber, John Cusack, and Alan Rickman playing chief executives who try to make a difference while muddling through events and crises, it is Forest Whitaker who is the soul of the film­––a man of tenacious loyalty seeing to the needs of men who often disappoint him.

BE ADVISED --This film is rated PG-13, with smoking, drinking, drug use, nudity, sexuality, and some intense scenes of violence related to the Jim Crow South and the Civil Rights movement.