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Warm Springs

Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783134888
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783134886
Label: HBO
Manufacturer: HBO
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: HBO
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 8173
Studio: HBO
Theatrical Release Date: April 30, 2005

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
He was the only president to be elected three times and is admired for his leadership during some of this nation's most challenging times most notably World War II and the Great Depression. Despite these historic accomplishments many Americans have never known of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's greatest achievement...until now. Starring Kenneth Branagh (Shakespeare) and Cynthia Nixon(Sex and the City) this inspiring true story reveals one man's secret quest for hope during his darkest days in a place that would serve as a source of strength for him the rest of his life: Warm Springs.Running Time: 120 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 026359275227

Amazon.com:
Warm Springs is a riveting, deeply moving film about a lesser-known chapter in the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the American president who saw his country through the dark, terrible times of the Great Depression and most of World War II. Before those epochal events, however, Roosevelt spent time in a political wilderness, groomed for high office but struck down by polio at age 39. Warm Springs is the fascinating story of Roosevelt's painful journey from despair back to wisdom and leadership. Kenneth Branagh gives an emotionally raw, courageous performance as FDR, estranged from his wife, Eleanor (a near-luminous Cynthia Nixon), and his political guru (David Paymer) while ambivalently seeking rehabilitation at Warm Springs, a broken-down spa in the backwoods of Georgia. Mired in misery, misanthropy, and drink, Roosevelt is coaxed back to civilized behavior and a glimmer of altruism by the spa's ailing, folksy manager, Tom Loyless (a remarkable Tim Blake Nelson), and the ministrations of a progressive-minded, physical therapist (solid work by Kathy Bates). Word of Roosevelt's improvement in the buoyant, mineral-rich waters of Warm Springs draws other polio victims--some of whom endure terrible discrimination and misery while traveling—to the spa. In time, these hopeful, all-ages paraplegics form a community that inspires a sense of mission in Roosevelt, setting the stage for his return to the political arena. Surehanded, 80-year-old veteran director Joseph Sargent (on a roll following his lovely, 2004 cable movie Something the Lord Made) has made a pitch-perfect and intimate, historical drama one never wants to see end. --Tom Keogh




Rating: - A arrogant man humbled by Polio to lead a Great Nation
Warm Springs portrays President Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Kenneth Branagh and his Wife Eleanor ... Read More

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Rating: - Who knew?
He was already rich, but before he became famous, FDR, at the start of his political career, was struck ... Read More

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Rating: - warm springs
i watched only part of warm springs, and was amazed at the protrayal and insight into FDR's gradual acceptance ... Read More

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Rating: - Credible Portrayal
This production was excellent from the standpoint of exploring the little known period of rehabilitation of FDR from ... Read More

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Rating: - Interesting Insight
Warm Springs is a snippet of the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, played by Kenneth Branagh, who while being groomed ... Read More

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