An unprecedented cast for an extraordinary and universal story: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Lenny Kravitz, James Marsden, David Oyelowo, Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Rickman, Liev Schreiber, Robin Williams, Alex Pettyfer, Mariah Carey. For his new film Lee Daniels, (Oscar nominee for “Precious”) takes inspiration from Wil Haygood’s article “A Butler Well Served by This Election” published in the Washington Post and which later became a book published in Italy by Newton Compton. Played by a powerful Forest Whitaker (Oscar winner for “The Last King of Scotland”) THE BUTLER – A BUTLER IN THE WHITE HOUSE is dedicated to a very special man: Eugene Allen. Black of humble origins, butler in the White House from 1957 to 1986, he witnessed the private life and political events of 7 presidents of the United States, from Harry Truman to the inauguration of Barack Obama. The film tells the story of the tenacity and determination of a man who had the courage to change not only his past, but also the future of an entire country. Through the gaze and emotions of Cecil Gaines (this is the name of the butler in the film) we retrace the events and changes in the American socio-political scene: from the assassination of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, to the movements of the Freedom Riders and the Black Panthers, from the Vietnam War to the Watergate scandal.