The Butler

There's something thematically appropriate about a movie telling the story of a butler who quietly influenced the United States taking the number one spot at the box office over its flashy, bigger rivals. Lee Daniels' 'The Butler' took multiplexes by storm this weekend, taking down last week's competition as well as a handful of seemingly strong newcomers.

In the new movie 'The Butler,' Mariah Carey plays the sharecropper mother of an African-American man who would later serve as the White House butler for more than three decades. But while Mariah's character is raped in the film, that wasn't even the scene that disturbed her most. That honor went to a recreation of the 1960 sit-in at a North Carolina Woolworth's lunch counter, where a black college