"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" quotes
I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
Director: David Fincher
Writer: Eric Roth, Robin Swicord, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Production: N/A
Year: 2008
MetaScore: 70/100
ImdbRating: 7.8
BoxOffice: $127,509,326
Released: 25 Dec 2008
Awards: Won 3 Oscars. 83 wins & 160 nominations total
170 video clips
00:14 Only on the outside
00:19 Our lives are defined by opportunities
00:48 Plenty of times you be alone
00:34 Some creatures weren't meant to survive
00:42 Some get struck by lightning
01:52 There's no time limit
00:14 They said I was gonna die soon but
00:12 We all end up in diapers
00:25 We're meant to lose the people we love
00:42 What are you doing here
00:18 What are you looking at
00:25 What if I told you that instead of gettin' older
00:42 When I'm afraid of what's under the stairs
00:26 Where'd he come from
00:36 You are born in 1918
00:34 You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went
00:14 You haven't been with many women
00:31 And I was born under unusual circumstances
00:24 And in the spring
08:00 And we just don't know it
01:20 Did I ever tell you I been struck by lightning seven times
00:29 Did I ever tell you I was struck by lightning seven times
00:48 Either I drank a hell of a lot more than I think I did
00:12 He got the worst of it
00:14 You never know what's comin' for ya
00:14 You never know what's coming for you
00:18 You as ugly as an old pot
00:33 I feel different than the day before
00:18 I have to go pee
00:22 I was thinking how nothing lasts
00:15 I wanna remember us just as we are now
00:25 I'd have to sleep alone
00:28 I'll never lose myself to self pity again
00:14 I'm always lookin' out my own eyes
00:25 It's a funny thing about comin' home
00:21 It's not about how well you play
Did I ever tell you I've been struck by lightning seven...
Good night Benjamin
Did I ever tell you I was struck by lightning seven times
You can be mad as a mad dog at the way things went
00:25 A friend told me
that she never had the chance
00:19 A transport carrying 1,300 men
had been split by a torpedo.
00:29 All right, he says, "I went back home."
And then t...
00:08 - Amen! Amen!
- Amen! Amen!
00:28 And in May of 1945,
when I was 26 years old,
00:30 And in the spring of 2003
00:30 And in the spring of 2003,
00:18 And even longer nights.
00:14 Are you afraid?
00:14 Are you all right?
00:19 Are you right out of your mind?
00:17 Are you sick
00:08 ...because all the ingredients are there
for a major storm,
00:05 Benjamin?
Mrs. La Tourneau just passed.
00:27 Benjamin!
00:11 Benjamin we're meant to lose the people we love
00:29 But, life being what it is,
00:12 Come on.
00:25 Did you count the toes?
00:44 Did I ever tell you I was struck by lightning seven times
00:13 Did I ever tell you I was struck by lightning seven times
00:17 Did I ever tell you I've been struck by lightning seven...
00:22 Did I ever tell you I've been struck
by lightning seven...
00:37 Did I ever tell you
I was struck by lightning seven times?
00:12 Elizabeth.
00:09 Everyone's fine.
She's a perfectly healthy baby gi...
02:20 For what it's worth it's never too late
00:09 Good night Benjamin
00:29 Good night.
00:13 Here, you light it.
00:22 Hey, I know it's hard.
You can't smoke in here.
00:16 Hey! What are you doing there?
00:10 Honey?
00:21 - and how to talk.
- What's my name?
00:27 I am so glad we didn't find one another
when I was 26.
00:25 I bet I can stay out here longer than you.
00:18 I better get changed.
A group of us are going to a party.
00:08 I can't lie.
00:17 I can't really say I'm always looking out my own...
00:15 I didn't mind.
00:24 I enjoyed talking to you.
00:29 I figure you were born in 1918 49 years ago
00:29 I figure, you were born in 1918,
49 years ago.
00:30 I have to go back tomorrow.
00:07 - I know you're afraid.
- I'm not hiding it.
00:23 "I left with just the clothes on my back."
00:20 I promise you I'll never lose myself to self pity again
00:24 I sold the summer house
on Lake Pontchartrain,
00:06 I want to remember us just as we are now
Cast
Daisy - Cate Blanchett
Benjamin Button - Brad Pitt
Caroline - Julia Ormond
Dorothy Baker (as Faune Chambers) - Faune Chambers Watkins
Monsieur Gateau - Elias Koteas