
The story is a look at the life of Eugene Allen, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
Release date: 18 october 2013.
Director: Lee Daniels. Screenplay written by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong, another writer is Wil Haygood (article "A Butler Well Served by This Election").
Cast: Alex Pettyfer (Thomas Westfall), John Cusack (Richard Nixon), Robin Williams (Dwight Eisenhower), Terrence Howard (Howard), James Marsden (John F. Kennedy), Alan Rickman (Ronald Reagan), Liev Schreiber (Lyndon B. Johnson), Forest Whitaker (Cecil Gaines), Melissa Leo (Mamie Eisenhower), Minka Kelly (Jackie Kennedy), Jane Fonda (Nancy Reagan), Cuba Gooding Jr. (Carter Wilson), Jesse Williams (Rev. James Lawson), Vanessa Redgrave (Annabeth Westfall), Mariah Carey (Hattie Pearl), David Oyelowo (Louis Gaines), Lenny Kravitz (James Holloway), Oprah Winfrey (Gloria Gaines), Nelsan Ellis (Martin Luther King Jr.), Dana Michelle Gourrier (Helen Holloway), Aml Ameen (Young Cecil), Colin Walker (John Ehrlichman), Yaya Alafia (Carol Hammie), Xosha Roquemore (Foxy), Stephen Rider (Admiral Rochon), Alex Manette (H.R. Haldeman), Michael Rainey Jr. (Cecil - 8 yrs), David Jensen (MacGeorge Bundy), Joe Chrest (White Usher), John L. Armijo (Eisenhowers Military Adviser), David Banner (Earl Gaines), Orlando Eric Street (President Barack Obama), Nealla Gordon (Senator Nancy Kassebaum), Mo McRae (Eldridge Huggins), Marco St. John (Chief Justice Warren Burger), James DuMont (Sherman Adams), Tarra Riggs (Sophie Wilson), Colman Domingo (Freddie Fallows), Philippe Radelet (Houseman), Kay Smith (Diane Nash).