A chat with animation genius Hayao Miyazaki and Disney’s John Lasseter

January 8, 2009 by Terri Schwartz  
Filed under Entertainment, Movies, Reviews, The Magazine

Spanning the course of nearly a century, Brad Pitt plays Benjamin Button, a child born with all of the deteriorations of a man in his eighties. Discarded by his father into the loving arms of Queenie (Taraji P. Henson), an owner of an early form of a nursing home, Benjamin ages backwards but, by doing so, is able to learn the important lessons of life both backwards and forwards.