Hyde Park on Hudson
2012 Directed by Roger Michell
Synopsis
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.
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This screenplay needs to be rewritten by a fire.
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Went to see this tonight. Usually I have a short discussion afterward and give it a rating but this time all I could talk about was the brilliant new ITV2 series 'The Big Reunion' which aired last night.
This film just felt a bit bloated - odd for a 95 minute running time but I really didn't give much of a shit about FDR's flings. Good performances though especially from a stand-out Olivia Colman. However I couldn't work out why a few witty lines and scenes here and there made a select few people in our screening laugh out loud hysterically as if they were watching Airplane! for the first time.
So in conclusion, watch 'The Big Reunion' featuring hilarious stories of spats between crap 90s and 00s British & Irish pop groups instead of Hyde Park on Hudson.
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Though it's far less despicable than 2016: Obama's America, I find Hyde Park on Hudson similarly interesting. Besides the fact that they're both about presidents--here's Time's mash-up of the two leaders from a few years back--they both exist solely for purposes they failed to fulfill. 2016 was failed propaganda, meant to damage Obama's shot at a second term; Hyde Park on Hudson is failed Oscar bait, garnering poor reviews and exactly zero Academy Award nominations.
With Bill Murray and Laura Linney's prospects at another Oscar nod long gone, the film now resides in a sort of vacuum. Who is this for? I can't imagine anyone being entertained by the ridiculous plot, a crucial element of which is the suspense over…
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μετά το μισάωρο δοκίμασα να κάνω την εξής μαγκιά: το άφησα να παίζει, έκλεισα τον ήχο, και έβαλα να παίζει 20/20 του JT.
και πάλι μαλακία ήταν βέβαια.
(αλλά σοβαρά, πώς κάνεις κάτι τόσο τραγικά αδιάφορο; κανένα conflict, καμία ιστορία, -κανένας bill murray φοβάμαι-, τίποτα τίποτα, απολύτως τίποτα. κάνει το ray να μοιάζει με το i'm not there.)
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Hot Dogs on the Hudson. Bill Murray is good, the film is not.
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Watching this is like sleeping with your eyes open.
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I enjoyed the relationship between FDR and King George VI much more than this 5th cousin love affair. Much more interesting.
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Despite reading several rather harsh reviews for Hyde Park on Hudson (particularly The A.V. Club and The New Yorker, not to mention the general negative ratings here on Letterboxd), I held my nose and gave it a shot. Who could resist Bill Murray doing Roosevelt? And how could the lovely Olivia Williams possibly play the rather less than lovely Eleanor Roosevelt? (the answer in both cases being with the help of conspicuous dental prosthetics, it seems)
I can't understand why Hyde Park on Hudson was received so poorly when HBO churns out several movies just like this every year, and is usually handsomely rewarded come award season. Hyde Park on Hudson is no better or no worse than the baseline…
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Wonder how true it was. Fun to watch a few months after King's Speech.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Delightfully fictionalized history with Bill Murray crushing it as an endlessly charming FDR. The actor playing the King also does a credible job in making the role his own and not simply emulating the success of The King's Speech. The women of the film are given shorter shrift - I could have done with less of Laura Linney's mistress character who also serves as narrator and moral center of the piece, though Olivia Williams makes for a suitably prickly Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Murray's performance is stellar, while the rest of this flick is gleefully weird.
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Reasonably entertaining
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Spotty FDR slice-of-life pic. Murray charms, but the flick feels stilted, directionless.