The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (12A)

In 1918, an expectant father gives up his newborn son because the mewling infant looks like an old man, with ossified bones and wrinkled skin. African-American retirement home nurse Queenie takes pity on the abandoned babe and raises the child, astonished that as Benjamin grows older, he looks younger. As the years pass, Benjamin becomes ever more vibrant. When he is eventually strong and old enough to leave the retirement home, Benjamin seeks his fortune aboard a tugboat captained by a hard-drinking Irishman and embarks on a tumultuous love affair with a beautiful ballet dancer.