<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $334 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy romantic drama film directed by David Fincher . The storyline by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald . The film stars Brad Pitt as a man who ages in reverse and Cate Blanchett as the love interest throughout his life . </P> <P> The film was released in North America on December 25, 2008 to positive reviews . The film went on to receive thirteen Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director for Fincher, Best Actor for Pitt, and Best Supporting Actress for Taraji P. Henson, and won three, for Best Art Direction, Best Makeup, and Best Visual Effects . </P> <P> In August 2005, elderly Daisy Fuller is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital as Hurricane Katrina approaches . She starts rambling to her daughter, Caroline, about a train station built in 1918 and Mr. Gateau, the best clockmaker in all of the South, who was hired to make a clock for it . Mr. Gateau was blind, and lost his son in World War I, which crushed him, but he continued to labor over his clock . When it was unveiled at the station, the public was surprised to see that the clock ran backwards, to which Mr. Gateau says he made it that way so that the boys they lost in the war could come back again and live their lives that were ended too soon . After that, Mr. Gateau was never seen again, and people speculated he died of a broken heart or went out to sea . </P>

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