The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Story to Screenplay

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, screenplay by Eric Roth

This 1922 short story from F. Scott Fitzgerald's collection Tales of the Jazz Age has been adapted into a movie by Eric Roth (who wrote the Forrest Gump screenplay), starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Coming to theaters later this month, the movie adapts Fitzgerald's story of a boy born an old man who grows younger in appearance as he grows older in years.