"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 - 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.
In the film, Benjamin, born a wrinkled, arthritic infant, is abandoned by his father and lives in a nursing home for seniors with a young African-American named Queenie, whom he calls Momma. When he is twelve years of age, he meets a girl named Daisy who believes him when he says that he is aging in reverse. They fall in love and later have a child after many various events and occurences. The film ends with Daisy, at this point an old woman, cradling a baby Benjamin, who has all but forgotten her.
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