The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Yes. 86% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 71%.

Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward. Wikipedia ↗

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy romantic drama film directed by David Fincher, loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 short story. Brad Pitt stars as Benjamin Button, a man born with the physical appearance and ailments of an elderly person who ages in reverse — growing younger as the years pass.

The film follows Benjamin's extraordinary life from his birth in New Orleans in 1918, through the decades as he experiences the 20th century in reverse biological order, falling in love with Daisy, a dancer played by Cate Blanchett, whose normal aging creates a poignant window of time when their physical ages briefly align. David Fincher's meticulous visual approach was essential to the film's success, as the story required Brad Pitt to convincingly appear at every age from elderly to infant. The digital aging and de-aging effects, achieved through a combination of motion-capture technology, prosthetic makeup, and CGI, were groundbreaking and won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

The film's melancholic meditation on time, mortality, and the impossibility of holding onto the people and moments we love resonated with audiences despite the deliberate, contemplative pacing that some critics found overly languid. Alexandre Desplat's tender, waltz-like score underscored the film's emotional themes. Brad Pitt's quietly devastating performance anchored a film that used its fantastical premise to explore the universal experience of watching life pass.