Jane Fonda and Alan Rickman as Nancy and Ronald Reagan in Lee Daniels’ The Butler. Leslie Nielsen did not return from the dead to play the white-haired fellow behind them. And the movie is the above-speculated curiosity but it’s also more, as I discuss in my review of the picture for MSN Movies.
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No review of “Kick-Ass 2”?