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Overview
Release Date:
30 April 2005 (USA) moreTagline:
The greatest challenge FDR faced was the one we never saw.Plot:
Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 8 wins & 26 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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'Lost' Finds WGA Awards for 23 Writers (From Studio Briefing. 6 February 2006)
'Brokeback' and 'Crash' Win WGA Awards (From WENN. 6 February 2006)
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Understanding FDR: Physical Challenges Offer Triumph moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Kenneth Branagh | ... | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | |
| Cynthia Nixon | ... | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| David Paymer | ... | Louis Howe | |
| Tim Blake Nelson | ... | Tom Loyless | |
| Matt O'Leary | ... | Fred Botts (as Matthew O'Leary) | |
| Matt Malloy | ... | Lionel Purdy | |
| Andy Davoli | ... | Jake Perini (as Andrew Davoli) | |
| Nelsan Ellis | ... | Roy Collier | |
| Jane Alexander | ... | Sara Delano Roosevelt | |
| Kathy Bates | ... | Helena Mahoney | |
| Melissa Ponzio | ... | Lucy Mercer | |
| Quint Von Canon | ... | Stephen Teller | |
| Mike Pniewski | ... | Hastings, Party Leader | |
| Grayce Spence | ... | League Member | |
| Rand Hopkins | ... | Dr. Lovett |
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USA:121 min | Argentina:121 minCountry:
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The swimming pool that Kenneth Branagh and the actors who play the Warm Springs patients swim in is the actual pool that Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the real patients swam in, and the water is the same mineral water that was used in the pool. The pool was especially refurbished for the film. moreGoofs:
Continuity: The train seen in an external shot as the Roosevelts travel to Georgia for the first time is clearly not of the same type as the train they are in. The train seen externally is British. moreQuotes:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: [FDR is in the swimming pool] But I don't know how to stand.Aunt Sally: Not yet, you don't.
Tom Loyless: But you will.
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WARM SPRINGS is one of the finest films ever produced by HBO and clearly belongs on the theatrical screens. But until that happens the news of the release of the DVD should allow those who missed this phenomenal film to feel greeted with well-earned joy.
Writer Margaret Nagle and Director Joseph Sargent have created an isolated time in the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the inception of his polio at age 39 and the treatment of his impairment at Warm Springs, Georgia, and use this potential tragedy to demonstrate how a man of means and high political aspirations was humbled by a debilitating disease only to find healing and consolation at the hands of 'the common people', a change in his priorities that marked his popular success as a President who inherited the leadership of a country devastated by depression and war.
Kenneth Branagh is superlative as FDR, finding just the right amount of bravado and churlishness and womanizing while continuing to be the man of great potential and a loving husband to Eleanor (a surprisingly terrific Cynthia Nixon). His overbearing mother Sara Delano Roosevelt (Jane Alexander who is still remembered as a perfect 'Eleanor' in the older 'Franklin and Eleanor') tries her best to belittle Eleanor, only to enhance Eleanor's blossoming into the world respected, humanistic First Lady she became.
But much of the action is aptly placed at the healing resort of Warm Springs, a run down hot springs operated by Tom Loyless (Tim Blake Nelson) and the place where Helena Mahoney (Kathy Bates) nursed FDR back to health. The importance of this spot grows through the film and through FDR's life and in the end it is the beneficiary of his estate.
Watching Branagh tumble from political barnstormer to reluctant patient to humanized President is a heartwarming venture. His supporting cast is excellent - Bates, Nixon, Alexander, Nelson as well as David Paymer, Deborah Calloway Duke, Danny Connell, and many others. The direction by Joseph Sargent is one of simplicity, purity of purpose, and highly respectful of his story and his view of history. This is an important film. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp