11. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button trailer

In this scene from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the main character Benjamin Button is only seven years old. They say that youth is wasted on the young, but in the case of Benjamin Button, this may not be so true. This new film directed by David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en) is loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story about a man who ages backwards. He is born with the skin and organs of an 80-year-old. This shocks some of the folk in New Orleans, and amazes others. It soon becomes apparent that as he grows older, he begins to look younger. In that sense, he has a very unique life spanning from the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century. But even with such an interesting disposition,... [read full story]