HYDE PARK ON HUDSON: Bill Murray plays Franklin Delano Roosevelt In Royal Company

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HYDE PARK ON HUDSON: Bill Murray plays Franklin Delano Roosevelt In Royal Company
by Darius Kadivar
02-Dec-2012
 

Tagline : The President. The First Lady. The King. The Queen. The Mother. The Mistress...One weekend would unite two great nations...After cocktails of course.

Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) Directed by Roger Michell Starring Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Samuel West

Official Trailer of Hyde Park on Hudson:


 

The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.

Hyde Park On Hudson, is set just weeks after the King’s historic speech, stars Samuel West as the stuttering King and Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth. (Source: persianrealm.com)

Release Dates: 

US : December 7th, 2012

UK : 1st February 2013


FRANCE, BELGIUM: 27th February 2013

Other Countries Here


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INTERVIEW WITH CAST AND CREW

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Bill Murray Interview for HYDE PARK ON HUDSON:

Emmy winner Jake Hamilton travels to the Toronto International Film Festival to talk with the legendary Bill Murray about his new film HYDE PARK ON HUDSON -- only on JAKE'S TAKES! Follow Jake around the world at twitter.com/jakestakes

Screen Writer Richard Nelson Interview for HYDE PARK ON HUDSON:



Director Roger Michell Interview for HYDE PARK ON HUDSON:

 

Laura Linney Interview for HYDE PARK ON HUDSON:

Olivia Williams Interview for HYDE PARK ON HUDSON:

Toronto Interview for HYDE PARK ON HUDSON:

Olivia Williams, Director Roger Michell & Writer Richard Nelson discuss the story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Daisy Stuckley.

  

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GREAT MEN WITH HANDICAPS :

 

CRIPPLED PRESIDENT MEETS STAMMERING KING

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N.Y. Film Festival review:  "Hyde Park on Hudson" (cbs news)

NEW YORK : Audiences might be forgiven to believe "Hyde Park on Hudson" represents the stirrings of a new art house tent pole franchise - the stuttering monarch of "The King's Speech" returns, this time paired with a U.S. president with polio. Oh, the toy merchandising!

Snark disabled. But the thought was prompted by the notion that the character of George VI - previously portrayed in an Academy Award-winning performance by Colin Firth, and here by Samuel West ("Howards End") - is a remarkable jumble of self-doubts and determination, making him a very human figure fitting into a role meant to represent something slightly more.

With forebodings of war against Nazi Germany in the near distance, the King takes the first trip to America ever by a British monarch in order to curry an alliance with the isolationist United States. The mission not only represents possibly the only chance of survival for his nation, but also a proving ground for his own position as King - a role he never wanted, and which was ceded to him following Edward VIII's abdication to marry (gasp!) an American.

The trip also brings him face-to-face with a father figure, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Bill Murray), who - patrician upbringing notwithstanding - has fine-tuned his ability to relate to the public in ways unfathomable to the monarch. FDR also knows what the royals hope to gain, and in exchanges that carry the deftness and undertow of a bridge game, Roosevelt and the Americans engage in a sort of gamesmanship with the Brits where the actual prize - a war alliance - is barely spoken aloud.

"Hyde Park on Hudson," inspired by the real events of June 1939's "hot dog picnic," is based on the diaries and letters of Daisy Suckley, a fifth cousin of Roosevelt who became the president's confidant and mistress. After Daisy died at age 100, her correspondence was found, opening a new window into the private life of FDR (whose relationships with first lady Eleanor and his secretary Missy LeHand were already well-documented).

Daisy (played by Laura Linney, of "You Can Count on Me" and "The Savages") is invited to the Roosevelt family home in Hyde Park, N.Y., as a distraction to FDR, but their friendship soon passes into something more physical. This was, of course, an era when staff, the press, family and even other mistresses tended to turn a blind eye to such indiscretions.

Directed by Roger Michell ("Notting Hill"), "Hyde Park on Hudson" is a light, nostalgic look at what turned out to be an incredibly important turn in history. It is also as mercurial as history, as when one of the sweetest scenes in recent films - FDR and Daisy's drive through flower-filled fields - becomes something else entirely. Yes, this movie is rated R.

The whirlwind of the film circles FDR, which is dramatically expected - and unavoidable, given that FDR is played by Bill Murray. His sardonic good humor is fitting for the larger-than-life figure (whom Murray has referred to as "that guy on the dime"), but it is impossible to forget he is Murray, so strong is the actor's blithe, winking air.

The deft cast also includes Olivia Williams as Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Marvel as Missy, Olivia Colman as Elizabeth, and - as stand-ins for Upstate New York - the Chiltern Hills of England. The film's evocative photography, costumes and pitch-perfect production design add luster.

"Hyde Park on Hudson" opens in theaters December 7 (Pearl Harbor Day!) from Focus Features. Screenplay by Richard Nelson; produced by Michell, Kevin Loader and David Aukin.

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