The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Original title	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Swedish release title	Benjamin Buttons otroliga liv
Working title	Benjamin Button

Director	David Fincher
Screenplay	Eric Roth
Producer	Kathleen Kennedy Frank Marshall Ceán Chaffin
Director of Photography	Claudio Miranda
Music	Alexandre Desplat
Production Designer	Donald Graham Burt
Film Editor	Angus Wall Kirk Baxter
Production Mixer	Mark Weingarten
Stunt Coordinator	Mickey Giacomazzi
Story	Eric Roth Robin Swicord
Casting	Laray Mayfield
Still Photographer	Merrick Rhodes Morton (as Merrick Morton)
Visual Effects	Eric Barba Craig Barron (Matte World Digital) Charlie Iturriaga (Ollin Studio) Matt McDonald (Evil Eye Pictures) Daniel P. Rosen (Evil Eye Pictures) Edson Williams (Lola Visual Effects) Mattias Bergbom (digital hair artist)
Costume Designer	Jacqueline West
Sound Editor	Ren Klyce
Re-recording Mixer	Ren Klyce David Parker Michael Semanick

Brad Pitt	Benjamin Button
Cate Blanchett	Daisy Fuller
Taraji P. Henson	Queenie
Julia Ormond	Caroline
Jason Flemyng	Thomas Button
Mahershalalhashbaz Ali	Tizzy
Jared Harris	kapten Mike
Elias Koteas	Monsieur Gateau
Ed Metzger	Theodore Roosevelt
Phyllis Somerville	farmor Fuller

Production Company	The Kennedy/Marshall Company
Copyright	Paramount Pictures Corporation	2008
	Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.	2008
Presented by	Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.
	Paramount Pictures Corporation
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm)	Sandrew Metronome Distribution Sverige AB	2009
Distributor in Sweden (DVD)	Warner Bros. Entertainment Sverige AB	2009

Censorship number	146210
Date	2009-01-09
Classification	Allowed from age 11
Original length	4545 meters
Notes	Aktlängder: 465, 489, 463, 541, 363, 554, 443, 406, 435, 386.

Aspect ratio	2.35:1
Sound type	Sound
Sound system	Dolby Digital
Colour type	Colour
Carrier type	35 mm
Frames per second	24
Length in minutes	159 min

Original title	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Short story)
Author	F. Scott Fitzgerald

	Montreal, Quebec	Canada		2007-05-22	2007-05-30
	Los Angeles, Kalifornien	USA		2007-03-12	2007-04-13
	New Orleans, Louisiana	USA		2006-11-06	2007-03-05

First showing	2008-12-25			USA	159 min
Release in Sweden	2009-01-16			Sweden
DVD release	2009-06-10			Sweden
Cinematheque screening, archive copy	2011-05-27					Endast ett avsnitt i samband med besök av David Fincher.
TV showing	2019-05-17	Kanal 5		Sweden
	2019-07-17	Kanal 5		Sweden
	2019-10-12	Kanal 5		Sweden
	2021-09-11	Kanal 11		Sweden
	2022-04-10	Kanal 11		Sweden
	2022-08-07	Kanal 5		Sweden
	2022-08-08	Kanal 9		Sweden
	2022-08-13	Kanal 11		Sweden
	2023-01-03	Kanal 11		Sweden	167 min
	2023-07-31	Kanal 5		Sweden

Original title	When the Saints Go Marching In
Performed by	Doc Paulin's Marching Band

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Performed by	Doc Paulin's Marching Band

Original title	Didn't He Ramble
Composer	Milton Batiste
Performed by	Olympia Brass Band

Original title	Dixie
Composer	Daniel Decatur Emmett	(1860)
Performed by	Mickey Finn
	Big Tiny Little	(piano)

Original title	Country Club
Composer	Scott Joplin	(1909)
Performed by	Scott Joplin

Original title	Elite Syncopations
Composer	Scott Joplin	(1902)
Performed by	Scott Joplin

Original title	The Chrysantemum
Composer	Scott Joplin	(1904)
Performed by	Scott Joplin

Original title	Dich teure Halle. Ur Tannhäuser
Composer	Richard Wagner	(1845)
Lyrics	Richard Wagner	(1845)
Orchestra	Orchestra Del Teatro San Carlo
Sung by	Kirsten Flagstad	(repris)

Original title	Just As I Am, Without One Plea
Composer	William B. Bradbury	(1849)
Lyrics	Charlotte Elliott	(1835)

Original title	Amazing Grace
Lyrics	John Newton	(1779)

Original title	Pepsi Jingle
Composer	Austen Croom-Johnson	(1939)
	Alan Bradley Kent	(1939)

Original title	There'll come a Time (Wait and See)
Composer	Wingy Manone
	Miff Mole
Performed by	Frank Trumbauer	(1927))
	Bix Beiderbecke	(1927)

Original title	Ostrich Walk
By	Nick LaRocca	(1917)
	Larry Shields	(1917)
	Tony Sbarbaro	(1917)
	Edward B. Edwards	(1917)
	Henry Ragas	(1917)
Performed by	Frank Trumbauer
	Bix Beiderbecke

Original title	Polonäs, piano, nr 6, op. 53, Ass-dur
Composer	Frédéric Chopin	(1842)

Original title	Bethena
Composer	Scott Joplin	(1905)

Original title	Wah Dee Dah
Composer	J. Russel Robinson
	Irving Mills
Lyrics	Ned Washington
Sung by	Cab Calloway

Original title	Basin Street Blues
Composer	Spencer Williams	(1926)
Lyrics	Spencer Williams	(1926)
Orchestra	The Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Original title	That's a Plenty
Composer	Lew Pollack	(1914)
Lyrics	Ray Gilbert	(1950?)
Orchestra	The Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Original title	Milenberg Joys
Composer	Ferdinand Joseph Morton	(1925)
	Paul Mares	(1925)
	Leon Roppolo	(1925)
Lyrics	Walter Melrose	(1925)
Orchestra	The Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Original title	The Old Spinning Wheel
Composer	Billy Hill	(1933)
Lyrics	Billy Hill	(1933)
Orchestra	The Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Original title	So Long Blues
Orchestra	The Preservation Hall Jazz Band

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Composer	Hugh Cannon	(1902)
Lyrics	Hugh Cannon	(1902)
Orchestra	The Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Original title	Weary Blues
Composer	Artie Matthews	(1915)
Orchestra	The Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Original title	Tin Roof Blues
Composer	Ben Pollack	(1923)
	Paul Mares	(1923)
	Leon Roppolo	(1923)
	George Brunies	(1923)
	Mel Stitzel	(1923)
Lyrics	Walter Melrose	(1923)
Performed by	Cliff Jackson

Original title	Ain't Misbehavin'
Composer	Fats Waller	(1929)
	Harry Brooks	(1929)
Lyrics	Andy Razaf	(1929)
Performed by	Cliff Jackson

Original title	That's How Rhythm Was Born
Composer	J.C. Johnson	(1933)
Lyrics	George Whiting	(1933)
	Nat Burton	(1933)
Sung by	The Boswell Sisters	(1933)

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Element type	Print
Item base	Polyester
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	Print
Item base	Polyester
Carrier type	35 mm

Element type	SEPMAG
Carrier type	DTS-skiva

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	2

Type	Misc.prints
Language	Swedish