Hyde Park on Hudson

Hyde Park on Hudson is a 2012 British biographical historical comedydrama film directed by Roger Michell. The film stars Bill Murray as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Laura Linney as Margaret Daisy Suckley, a cousin and childhood friend of the President. It was based on Suckleys private journals and diaries, discovered after her death, and fictionally dramatizes her close personal relationship with Roosevelt, and the 1939 visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Hyde Park.

In June 1939, King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, visit the United States, during which they stay with the Roosevelts at Hyde Park. The British hope that the visit will improve the chances of American support during the future war with Germany. Georgewho is king because his brother Edward VIII abdicatedis nervous, because of the importance of the visit, because he stutters, and because of having to eat a hot dog for the first time at a picnic in his honor. Roosevelt reassures George by citing his own inability to walk, and observes that others do not see their handicaps because its not what they want to see. The president tells the king that he hopes to overcome Americans reluctance to help Britain.The night the king and queen arrive, Daisy sees LeHand having an affair with Roosevelt. LeHand tells a shocked Daisy that their respective relationships with the president are not his only ones, mentioning Dorothy Schiff and Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, and that Daisy must accept sharing Roosevelt with other women. At the picnic the next day the king successfully eats a hot dog for a photo op, and Daisy in a voiceover states that the visit helped the two countries form a Special Relationship. Daisy rejects Roosevelts requests to see her until he visits her himself they reconcile, and Daisy accepts her role as one of the presidents mistresses. As years pass, Daisy watches Roosevelt become frail as a wartime leader nonetheless everyone, she says, still looked to him, still seeing whatever it was they wanted to see. ........

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