HYDE PARK ON HUDSON (2012) **1/2 Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Samuel West, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Marvel, Olivia Williams, Elizabeth Wilson. Rather bland but diverting enough account of the affair of FDR (gamely played by Murray) and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley (Linney very low-key and perhaps miscast) whose arrival to his enclave during the 1939 visit of the King and Queen of England (West and Colman) is the soft center that holds the picture on high in this otherwise negligible, forgettable historical biopic. While Roger Michell gives his actors plenty of room to work there's a listlessness to the tone and Richard Nelson's pedestrian script may as well have had Murray and Linney reading aloud from the diary.
Review of Hyde Park on Hudson
Hyde Park on Hudson
(2012)
Rather bland but diverting; may as well have had Murray and Linney reading aloud from the diary.
16 December 2012
Warning: Spoilers