Synopsis
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
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Cast
- Bill MurrayFranklin D. Roosevelt
- Laura LinneyDaisy
- Samuel WestBertie
- Olivia ColmanQueen Elizabeth
- Olivia WilliamsEleanor Roosevelt
- Elizabeth MarvelMissy
- Elizabeth WilsonMrs. Roosevelt
- Martin McDougallTommy
- Andrew HavillCameron
- Eleanor BronDaisy's Aunt
Recommendations
- 100
Observer
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. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 60
The Guardian
Sometimes a film takes your breath away by dint of its brilliance. Sometimes it's on account of its ineptitude. And just occasionally, it's for its shamelessness. Hyde Park on Hudson, for all its captivating shots of cornfields and estimable performances, is the latter. - 60
Total Film
More a "King's Speech" footnote than a sequel, Park only flies when Bill's centre stage. We're curious to see how it fares against "Lincoln," the award season's other presidential hopeful. - 60
Boxoffice Magazine
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. - 60
Time Out
Hyde Park could have been fawningly ponderous; that it's merely an airy trifle puts it a cut above the usual Oscar bait. - 60
Village Voice
For stretches of the film, he (Murray) is enough to recommend Hyde Park on Hudson, especially as he toys with his houseguests, England's King George (Samuel West) and Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman). - 50
The New Yorker
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.
