The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button

2009 · 175 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 41,306 VOTES · DIR. David Prior

Overview

A documentary about the making of David Fincher's 2008 film THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. Virtually every element in the evolution of the Fincher's film is documented here, from the project's attachment to numerous other directors during the 1990s, to its shoot in 2006 and 2007 in New Orleans, to its complex, CGI-intensive postproduction process.

Documentary2000s

Dialogue Timeline — 2,039 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:24 [MACHINE BEEPING]
00:07:10 Could you read it to me?
00:13:10 Hold your water! You go deal with it.
00:19:08 What was up the street? Or around the next corner?
00:24:34 QUEENIE: Come on.
00:29:21 Then I leave zoo, go here, go there. Wandered most of the time.
00:34:43 DAIS Y [WHISPERS]: Come on.
00:40:27 Although she never did and nobody ever came to visit her.
00:46:10 So I tell him.
00:51:27 [RETCHING]
00:57:39 ...from everywhere he went.
01:03:24 A bit of honey, please.
01:09:48 But the current that day was so strong that...
01:17:06 His name was Dennis Smith and he was a full-blooded Cherokee.
01:25:47 Oh, you seen some pain.
01:31:03 ... and oh, my, there's Agnes de Mille.
01:37:12 Now, Button's Buttons has been in our family for 124 years.
01:46:31 Spend some time with you, if I could.
01:52:55 ... and we just don 't know it.
01:58:38 NURSE: Let's take a look.
02:07:38 ... we sold my father's house on Esplanade.
02:15:50 - Yeah. - You're very kind.
02:24:45 I'm sorry, we're closing.
02:32:15 The police found this with him.

Cast & Characters

David Fincher Self Kathleen Kennedy Self Joshua Donen Self Frank Marshall Self Eric Roth Self Brad Pitt Self Cate Blanchett Self William Doyle Self Donald Graham Burt Self Jim Davidson Self

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed2,039
Dialogue density11.7 lines / min
First line00:00:24
Final line02:32:15

Production Record

DirectorDavid Prior
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes41,306