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HYDE PARK ON HUDSON

Average
Rating

3

Tuesday, December 04, 2012, AMC La Jolla 12 Theatres

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4

On Screen: 7:30pm Only!

AMC La Jolla 12 Theatres, Auditoriums 6 & 9

Cinema Chat / Introduction begins 30 minutes prior to screenings

HYDE PARK ON HUDSON

In June 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Academy Award nominee 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 establishment, as wife, mother, and mistresses all conspire to make the royal weekend an unforgettable one. Seen through the eyes of Daisy (Academy Award nominee Laura Linney), Franklin’s neighbor and intimate, the weekend will produce not only a special relationship between two great nations, but, for Daisy – and through her, for us all – a deeper understanding of the mysteries of love and friendship.

Rated R for brief sexuality Running Time: 94 Minutes

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24-Dec-12: Christina - Rating: 3

This could not possibly have been more heplful!

10-Dec-12: Mroe - Rating: 3

I wanted to like this film more but it just didn’t feel like it met its full potential. I never really forgot the Bill Murray was Bill Murray, I could tell he took the role very seriously but I just never completely believed he was FDR (unlike Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln). It was an interesting peek into this one weekend of important events and a glimpse into FDR’s many “relationships”. If Bill Murray and Laura Linney do manage nominations, good luck to them but I think once award season is over the film will be forgotten.

5-Dec-12: jh - Rating: 4

What’s not to like in HYDE PARK ON HUDSON? It’s light entertainment with excellent photography, screenplay, acting, and more humor than anything I’ve seen in the Cinema Society this year (most of it at the expense of the Queen of England,and Olivia Colman as the queen was very funny). And how about that soundtrack? If there’s any music in the 20th century better than that I don’t know what it is.

5-Dec-12: ann orr - Rating: 2

Too much about a lovesick woman and not enough

about FDR and the king. Bill Murray was good.

5-Dec-12: RichG - Rating: 3

Bill Murray did an adequate job becoming FDR. Too bad there was ZERO chemistry between the characters. There have been too many period pieces to make this film stand out. Too bad. I expected more.

4-Dec-12: Georgi - Rating: 3

Boy was the opening speaker terrific! Movie wasn't bad either. A period piece with some great interaction between FDR and Bertie Bill Murray was totally believable as FDR. Hard to see much chemistry between Laura Linney and him though. A sweet film about a time when secrets could be kept.