![]() ![]() Louis is soon arrested and is bailed out by Carter. Aware of Richard Nixon's plans to suppress the movement and upset at his son's actions, Cecil orders Louis and his girlfriend, Carol, to leave his house. In the late 1960s, after civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, Louis returns home and tells his family that he and a few others have founded a chapter of the radical organization called the Black Panthers. As a goodwill gesture, Jackie Kennedy presents Cecil with one of the former president's neckties before she leaves the White House. ![]() Johnson, enacts the transformative legislation into law. Several months after the speech, Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas and his successor, Lyndon B. Cecil is informed of the incident by Kennedy, who subsequently delivers a national address proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Kennedy's election, Louis and a dozen others are attacked by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling on the freedom riders bus. Gloria, feeling isolated from her husband, has an affair with the Gaines' neighbor, Howard, and also becomes an alcoholic. Furious, Cecil heads to Nashville, where he confronts Louis for disobeying him. Louis joins a student program at Fisk to peacefully engage in a sit-in at segregated public places and is arrested. Cecil is hesitant about this because he thinks the Deep South is too volatile and encourages Louis to enroll at Howard University. Louis, the eldest son, becomes a first generation university student at Fisk University in Tennessee. The Gaines family celebrates Cecil's new occupation with their closest friends and neighbors, Howard and Gina. Working in the White House, he witnesses first hand Eisenhower's reluctance to use troops to enforce school desegregation in the South, then the President's resolve to uphold the law by ordering to racially integrate a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.Ĭecil marries Gloria, who had been a maid at the same hotel, and they have two children: Louis and Charlie. Eisenhower's administration, where White House maître'd, Freddie Fallows, shows Cecil the grounds and introduces him to head butler Carter Wilson and co-worker James Holloway. Ultimately in 1957, he is hired by the White House during Dwight D. ![]() After several years, Maynard recommends Cecil for a position in Washington D.C., which Cecil gladly accepts. While working in the shop, he acquires skills from master servant, Maynard. One night, Cecil breaks into a pastry shop and is, unexpectedly, hired by the owners. In his teens, he leaves behind the Westfall plantation and his mother who has been mute since the incident. Cecil is taken in by Annabeth Westfall, the estate's caretaker, who reassigns Cecil to being a house servant instead. Cecil's father, Earl, confronts Westfall, and is shot dead. One day, the farm's temperamental owner, Thomas Westfall, rapes Cecil's mother, Hattie Pearl. The film was theatrically released by The Weinstein Company on Augto mostly positive reviews.Ĭecil Gaines, a young boy, is raised by his subservient parents on a cotton plantation in 1920s Macon, Georgia. It was the last film produced by Laura Ziskin, who died in 2011. Loosely based on the real-life of Eugene Allen, the film stars Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, an African-American who eyewitnesses notable events of the 20th century during his 34-year tenure serving as a White House butler. The Butler (marketed as Lee Daniels' The Butler) is a 2013 American historical drama film directed by Lee Daniels, written by Danny Strong, and featuring an ensemble cast. ![]()
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