LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER- 2013. Synopsis by Netflix. “Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker delivers a powerful performance as Cecil Gaines, who served as the White House butler under eight presidents. His three decades of service unfold against a backdrop of unparalleled change in American history.”<\/p>\n
8\/6\/13- Very good reviews. TRDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n 8\/16\/13- A good review in today’s NY Times. TRDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n 8\/25\/13- Although I did enjoy parts of\u00a0this movie, I was disappointed with the film as a whole.\u00a0I thought it was a lackluster story about the butler used as a vehicle for\u00a0a very powerful piece of history and it just didn’t seem to fit for me. The acting carried the movie.\u00a0TRDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER- 2013. Synopsis by Netflix. “Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker delivers a powerful performance as Cecil Gaines, who served as the White House butler under eight presidents. His three decades of service unfold against a backdrop of unparalleled change in American history.” 8\/6\/13- Very good reviews. TRDB. 8\/16\/13- A good review in today’s NY […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,48],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-11255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama-movies-by-genre","category-seen-at-the-theater","tag-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11255"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11257,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11255\/revisions\/11257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}