This very US-centric drama plays out mainly in the White House, in the period after World War II. In effect it is a history of the civil rights movement, as seen through the eyes of a fictional butler and his family, who served under eight successive presidents during that period.
No persons under 13 (Language, Violence, Prejudice).
Comments Racism is the principal theme that runs through a film about America and its deeply divisive segregated nature. Themes linked to it are a slowly awakening national consciousness, and the efforts of civil rights movements to oppose bigotry. These themes are mature and complex, prompting viewers to things carefully about this important issue.