http://www.rebelmouse.com - A sprawling sweep across nine decades of American history this star studded heart tugging and ultimately soaring tale filters the civil rights movement Vietnam and other major events through the prism of a White House butler serving a parade of U.S. presidents.Forest Whitaker is rock solid as Cecil Gaines whose improbable trek from Georgia cotton fields to the hallowed hallways of the nations highest office is a fictionalized drama loosely based on a real life story. Screenwriter Danny Strong was inspired after reading a newspaper story about Eugene Allen a black man who worked for the White House for 34 years before retiring as its head butler in 1986.The movie is officially Lee Daniels The Butler because of a licensing conflict with another movie studio which prohibited its intended title of The Butler. Thats how the director name became hitched to it at the last minute.