Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, 5 Golden Globes and winner of numerous Film Festival awards.

Film based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Special features of this DVD: widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital ; scene selection.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2008.

Music, Alexandre Desplat.

Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemying, Elias Koteas, Tilda Swinton.

Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival. He does survive and gets younger with time. Abandoned by Thomas Button, his biological father, after Benjamin's biological mother dies in childbirth, Benjamin is raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors' home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when they finally match up in age. Some of the revelations in Benjamin's diary are difficult for Caroline to read.

MPAA rating: PG-13 : for brief war violence, sexual content, language and smoking.

DVD.

Audio tracks in English, dubbed French and dubbed Spanish ; subtitled in English, French and Spanish ; closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Academy Award; Best Visual Effects.

Academy Award; Best Achievement in Art Direction.

Academy Award; Best Achievement in Makeup.