Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)

Release date: 2013-02-01
Country: UK
Language: English
Director: Roger Michell
Production Co: Daybreak Pictures, Film4, Free Range Films
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Rating: 5.8/10
Length: 1h 34min

Storyline

In 1930s Hudson Valley, Margaret "Daisy" Suckley is reacquainted with her distant cousin, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to help him relax at his family estate. That aid soon develops into much more as they become lovers. That puts Daisy in a unique position as Roosevelt receives the King and Queen of Britain in 1939 for a visit. As the Royal couple copes with the President's oddly plebeian arrangements, Daisy learns that there is far more to Roosevelt's life than she realized. With the world about to be set ablaze by war, friendships are struck and perspectives are gained on that special weekend that would make all the difference with a great, but very human, president.

Plot Keywords

mother son relationship, stutter, cabin in the woods, hand job, unfaithful husband, mistress, hot dog, year 1939, cigarette holder, swimming pool, englishman abroad, englishwoman abroad, disabled person, president, queen, king, picnic, womanizer, great depression, royalty

Short Review

[It] may have the look of a prestige picture, but it plays more like a version of FDR's life as told by TMZ, focusing on naughty details and ignoring the historical implications of the events depicted.