February 16, 2014Bill Murray is so cool, and I really do like Laura Linney, but Hyde Park on Hudson was just boring. Murray played President Franklin Roosevelt, and Linney played a distant cousin of his who also served as one of his many mistresses. The King and Queen of England arrived for a key meeting about England and the U.S. being allies in the upcoming war, but the real story of the movie was Roosevelt's many affairs while in office. Linney was initially shocked to find out she wasn't the only one, but she eventually went along with it and everything was fine after that. Based on a diary found when the person Linney was portraying died, Hyde Park on Hudson was a slow-moving period piece that told a true story I didn't care to know.
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