Lee Daniel's "The Butler" serves up quite a story

Forest Whitaker stars as Cecil Gaines, a butler in the White House spanning 8 presidential administrations.  Oprah Winfrey plays his beautiful but often troubled wife.   This is a powerful and poignant story of dignity,integrity, and the changing face of America.  Beginning in rural Georgia, Gaines (Whitaker) is orpnaned through no fault of his own and becomes a house servant (politcally correct term ,not the one used in the movie) at a young age. This skill takes him all the way to the White House. Though this is a presitgious opportunity it comes with its downfalls and troubles.  From Eisenhower to Reagan, things that were seen and heard were painful, powerful, and paradoxical.

I laughed and cried with the movie, its plots and sub plots.  It tells 2 stories at the same time.  It poetically draws a piture of the changing life, names of the Colored/Negro/ Black /African American during these times. There are awesome small parts playes by, Mariah Carey, David Banner, Ya-Ya  (of America's Top Model Fame) Liev Schreiber and the incomaprable Jane Fonda.

WARNINGS
Some Cursing
Minimal Sexual Content
Racist Language

 

2Guns. . .twice the fun

Wahlberg and Washington make for a great bro-mance of sorts. The plot sets you up along the path of the pair finding their way out of their own set up. Two agents get in the middle of a national security money extortion ring, The makeshift pair have more in common than appears to the movie goers` eye.Their unique skills sets under the umbrellas of investigation, get our odd couple investigations pointed at themselves.

Wahlberg and Washingtion are joined by the beautifu Paula Patton and the antagonist but funny Edward James Olmos.Guns drugs money double the double the crossing. This makes for intrigued and hilarious one liners.

WARNING
some nudity, harsh one liners, violence & cursing
Do not eat or drink during Mark Wahlberg`s one liners may cause choking