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Hyde Park on Hudson

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United Kingdom · 2012
Rated R · 1h 34m
Director Roger Michell
Starring Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Samuel West, Olivia Colman
Genre Comedy, Drama, History

One weekend in 1939, the King and Queen of England visit President Franklin D. Roosevelt at his upstate New York home. Also present are his mother, his wife, and his mistress. With World War II on the horizon, Roosevelt must juggle international affairs with domestic ones.

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Slant Magazine by

The filmmakers bite off far more than they're able to chew, resulting in an odd blend of touched-upon topics.

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The New Yorker by David Denby

The film is perceptive and shrewd about such matters as the awkwardness of two kinds of aristocracy and power brought face to face. But "Hyde Park" never catches fire.

60

Time Out by Keith Uhlich

Hyde Park could have been fawningly ponderous; that it's merely an airy trifle puts it a cut above the usual Oscar bait.

60

Boxoffice Magazine by Pete Hammond

A competent period costume drama, this intimate character study is light as air - and probably more suited to Masterpiece Theatre than as a major theatrical release.

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Observer by Rex Reed

In beauty, tone, technical achievement and cinematic artistry on every level, Hyde Park on Hudson is a movie unto itself - funny, believable, historic and hugely entertaining.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Todd McCarthy

Bill Murray as FDR? It takes a few minutes to get used to, but once he settles into the role of the 32nd president, the idiosyncratic comic actor does a wonderfully jaunty job of it in Hyde Park on Hudson.

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