Loosely based on the life of Eugene Allen, who served in the White House for 34 years.
Stylistically, Ken said this movie reminded him of Forrest Gump. The main character meets numerous U.S. presidents, and we see how American fashion, music, and culture changed over many decades.
Content-wise, this movie was a lot heavier. A boy raised on a cotton plantation uses his "house nigger" skills to land a job in a hotel, then in a fancier hotel, and finally at the White House. He spent his life trying to protect his sons from the violent racism he experienced in the south, but his older son chooses to move to the south and devote his life to the civil rights movement.
An inspirational story with a feel-good ending. Every American should see it.
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