What You Missed The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Scott Fitzgerald short story of the same name, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button seems like a pretty simple premise for a movie - which should be more epic drama to come alive, and one that wouldn t keep the audience awake for its 166 minute runtime. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall at the meeting with Paramount and Warner Brothers when writers Eric Roth ( Forrest Gump ) and Robin Swicord ( Memoirs Of A Geisha ) said they had an idea for a movie about a boy who is born old age and back. Based loosely on F.