Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with alcoholism and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.
The Butler is a Drama film released in 2013.
15 subtitle releases available in English. 11 releases include Hearing Impaired (HI) subtitles.
Movie Dialogue Sample
You're a nigger lover now? 603 00:42:02,771 --> 00:42:04,690 Get up, you nigger!
Look at me! 604 00:42:04,857 --> 00:42:06,859 - Look at me!
- What are you doing? 605 00:42:07,026 --> 00:42:10,029 You disrespectful monkey. Huh? 606 00:42:10,196 --> 00:42:12,114 Do you understand?
You understand? 607 00:42:12,281 --> 00:42:13,657 Stop it! Stop it! 608 00:42:13,824 --> 00:42:16,118 What do you think you're doing here? 609 00:42:18,245 --> 00:42:21,582 Get up! Get up, you nigger!
Look at me! Look at me! 610 00:42:21,749 --> 00:42:23,709 That up there or is that here? 611 00:42:27,171 --> 00:42:28,464 You don't have to tell me, 612 00:42:28,631 --> 00:42:30,507 - but you have to decide.
- I was a nigger. 613 00:42:42,937 --> 00:42:45,731 - Go back to where you came from!
- Here, you want some coffee? 614 00:43:07,002 --> 00:43:08,712 <i>...the niggers are better
off in their own schools</i> 615 00:43:08,879 --> 00:43:10,214 <i>than they are in the white schools.</i> 616 00:43:10,381 --> 00:43:12,841 - To serving our country.
- Serving our country. 617 00:43:13,008 --> 00:43:14,260 My man. 618 00:43:22,226 --> 00:43:26,689 I feel rich right now.
I like the way that tastes. 619 00:43:47,543 --> 00:43:49,169 <i>They got no business out here.</i> 620 00:43:49,336 --> 00:43:50,754 <i>...better off in their
own schools than they are</i> 621 00:43:50,921 --> 00:43:52,423 <i>in the white schools.</i> 622 00:43:57,344 --> 00:43:59,013 You're all sentenced to 3O days 623 00:43:59,179 --> 00:44:00,597 - in the countyjail.
- What? 624 00:44:00,764 --> 00:44:03,434 Bailiff, get these
niggers out of here. 625 00:44:25,914 --> 00:44:28,876 Something special
is going on down here, Dad. 626 00:44:32,046 --> 00:44:35,257 What's so special about
another colored man in jail? 627 00:44:37,176 --> 00:44:40,679 What you doing
with my hard earned money, Pop? 628 00:44:40,846 --> 00:44:42,056 Are you even in school? 629 00:44:42,222 --> 00:44:43,474 I'm trying to change
the way Negroes... 630 00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,225 You're breaking the law. 631 00:44:46,352 --> 00:44:49,688 That judge just sentenced you
to 3O days in the county workhouse. 632 00:44:49,855 --> 00:44:51,607 You fixing to get killed. 633 00:44:51,774 --> 00:44:53,192 If I can't sit at any
lunch counter I want, 634 00:44:53,359 --> 00:44:54,985 then I might as well be dead. 635 00:44:55,152 --> 00:44:57,112 - We're fighting for our rights.
- Rights? 636 00:44:57,279 --> 00:44:58,530 - What are you talking about?
- We're trying to change 637 00:44:58,697 --> 00:45:00,074 the nation's consciousness
toward the American Negro. 638 00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:01,492 Them postcards you've been sending me? 639 00:45:01,658 --> 00:45:03,535 - You're a damn liar.
- I have been in school. 640 00:45:06,580 --> 00:45:08,499 Who do you think you're talking to? 641 00:45:08,665 --> 00:45:10,876 I brought you into this world,
I can take you out of it. 642 00:45:43,951 --> 00:45:47,329 - Y'all been able to talk to him?
- Talk to who? 643 00:45:47,496 --> 00:45:50,457 - Louis.
- Yeah, we talk to him. 644 00:45:51,625 --> 00:45:54,128 Said he's joined something
called the "Freedom Riders," 645 00:45:54,294 --> 00:45:56,839 whatever the hell
that's supposed to mean. 646 00:45:57,005 --> 00:45:58,382 You gonna see him? 647 00:45:58,549 --> 00:46:00,551 I been fixing to trying to see him. 648 00:46:00,717 --> 00:46:02,845 Every time I do,
Cecil get all riled up. 649 00:46:03,011 --> 00:46:04,972 So I don't know when
that's gonna happen. 650 00:46:05,139 --> 00:46:07,474 "Fixing to trying."
See, that's the problem. 651 00:46:07,641 --> 00:46:10,561 You got to stop trying,
and you just got to do it. 652 00:46:10,727 --> 00:46:12,771 He take you
to the White House yet? 653 00:46:14,398 --> 00:46:17,067 No. Cecil say we're going soon. 654 00:46:17,234 --> 00:46:19,820 "Cecil say, Cecil say." 655 00:46:19,987 --> 00:46:23,615 Four years. That's what makes
you a little bit gullible, darling. 656 00:46:23,782 --> 00:46:25,909 I don't understand.
I don't understand why he can't 657 00:46:26,076 --> 00:46:28,370 - get the president to do something.
- See, Gina, that's your problem. 658 00:46:28,537 --> 00:46:30,747 You just say stupid stuff. 659 00:46:30,914 --> 00:46:35,127 President got more to do than be
thinking about Louis' foolishness. 660 00:46:36,503 --> 00:46:38,964 You know,
why don't you just shut up? 661 00:46:39,131 --> 00:46:42,468 It's just a mess.
Be nice. 662 00:46:42,634 --> 00:46:45,596 Who told you
you could tell me to shut up? 663 00:46:45,762 --> 00:46:47,764 - Well... You...
- Go get me a drink. 664 00:46:47,931 --> 00:46:49,475 I want some scotch. 665 00:46:51,226 --> 00:46:56,023 Well, I personally think Louis is
gonna get every one of us killed. 666 00:46:56,190 --> 00:46:58,859 They coming to get us.
They coming to get us. 667 00:46:59,026 --> 00:47:02,362 He crazy like his mama. 668 00:47:02,529 --> 00:47:04,490 I meant it in a goo
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