The Butler takes on a perfectly simple premise: the civil rights movement during the past 50 years. With such a complex, charged, and time-spanning topic, the movie was doomed for imperfection from the beginning.
The film (which I refuse to call "Lee Daniels' The Butler", just like I refuse to call his last movie "Precious, Based on the Novel Push by S…
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