Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 159
Fresh: 59 | Rotten: 100
Though bolstered by a thoroughly charming performance by Bill Murray in the central role, Hyde Park on Hudson is an FDR biopic that lets down both its audience and its subject.
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 25
Though bolstered by a thoroughly charming performance by Bill Murray in the central role, Hyde Park on Hudson is an FDR biopic that lets down both its audience and its subject.
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In June 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Bill Murray) and his wife Eleanor (Olivia Williams) host the King and Queen of England (Samuel West and Olivia Colman) for a weekend at the Roosevelt home at Hyde Park on Hudson, in upstate New York - the first-ever visit of a reigning English monarch to America. With Britain facing imminent war with Germany, the Royals are desperately looking to FDR for support. But international affairs must be juggled with the complexities of FDR's domestic
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Laura Linney
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Samuel West
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Olivia Colman
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Elizabeth Marvel
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Olivia Williams
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Elizabeth Wilson
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Eleanor Bron
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Nancy Baldwin
Mrs. Astor -
Tim Beckmann
President's Aide -
Guy Paul
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Eben Young
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Samantha Dakin
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Buffy Davis
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Morgan Deare
Plumber -
Tim Ahern
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Tommy Campbell
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Jeff Mash
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Kevin Millington
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Nell Mooney
Superstitious Maid -
Robert G. Slade
Waiter -
Jonathan Brewer
Ish-ti-opi -
Kumiko Konishi
Princess Te Ata -
Blake Ritson
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Parker Sawyers
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James McNeill
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British Imperial Mil...
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Amersham Band
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All Critics (159) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (59) | Rotten (100) | DVD (1)
Somewhat uneven and ultimately underwhelming, but there's plenty to admire and enjoy here nonetheless.
Top CriticA languid, tedious effort that never bothers to get to the heart of its characters, the film is a shallow reading of a significant time told mostly from the viewpoint of a lifeless character.
It's never a bad movie, but it can't quite gel into a good one either.
Hyde Park on the Hudson' is a forgettable historical footnote.
Essentially, Hyde Park on Hudson is a Shakespearean revel.
Murray's spot-on portrayal of a man juggling myriad pressures and demands, from petty to momentous, marks one of the film's greatest strengths.
The potentially sordid FDR-and-Daisy half of the drama is feebly unrewarding, bordering on pointless, and bogged down by ponderous narration.
An unconventional drama that succeeds despite an uneven plot.
The movie is all setting, nothing but plates and countrysides and old cars and absolutely nothing to say. It's a real snore.
The possibilities are endless, but none of them are explored with any depth herein.
...you certainly could do worse than enjoy a fanciful little film about a gentle president, his supposedly homely lover and two twittish English people appalled by hot dogs. I just wish they'd gone ahead and changed the names.
It's been a long time since Lost in Translation (2003), which is the last time Bill Murray did anything of real note in a film. Here he partially redeems the latter phase of his film career playing pre-war US President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
A delightful piece of historical speculation grounded in historical details and personal recollections that have continually been coming to light over the last seventy years ... Murray is terrific in the part - charming, at ease and cunning as a fox.
The issue of FDR's fidelity remains a thorny topic for traditionalists and historians, never mind the light, fluffy - and ultimately disposable - version of events.
There is nothing stirring or sufficiently humorous to engage us; the fact that a serving US President is having secret affairs no longer shocks
With the incongruous casting of Bill Murray as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nelson's screenplay concentrates on the personal, offering a somewhat voyeuristic view of the events leading up to the 1939 visit of King George
Even Murray, who never fails to be the most watchable actor in any film, can't prevent Hyde Park On Hudson from being too insipid.
It's not the strongest premise for a movie, though Hyde Park on Hudson somehow contrives to make it seem rather less than the sum of its parts.
Apparently Franklin Delano Roosevelt's polio paralysis didn't include everything below his waist. At least that's the impression left by Hyde Park on Hudson, which paints the president as a horn dog in chief... This isn't Lincoln, by a longshot.
When the central drama concerns whether the Royal Couple will eat hot dogs or not, you can tell it's too slender a premise to hang on a film on.
FDR's story is strikingly relevant to how Paralympians strive so hard today to correct our perception of 'disability'.
Tedious PBS middle-brow fare, though not without a few amusing moments in this mostly forgettable historical pic.
It's icky stuff, not helped by Murray giving perhaps the worst performance of his career. And I include Garfield 2.
The film's special success resides in the women's hairdos.
Perhaps Hyde Park on Hudson would have been more edifying if it hadn't been released in the wake of The King's Speech.
When the story's leading quartet have to negotiate embarrassing moments - a handjob for Roosevelt administered by Daisy in a bouncing car; eating a hotdog at a picnic for Bertie and Liz - it's Murray's FDR who is most at ease in the sticky situations.
Audience Reviews for Hyde Park on Hudson
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- Daisy: That spring Franklin showed me a world I never knew existed.
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- Franklin D. Roosevelt: I thought I might have a swim. Come along?
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Foreign Titles
- Hyde Park am Hudson (DE)
- Week-end Royal (FR)
