'Hyde Park on Hudson' a tabloid take on FDR's life
by The New York Post
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This film image released by Focus Features shows Bill Murray as Franklin D. Roosevelt in a scene from "Hyde Park on Hudson." (AP Photo/Focus Features, Nicola Dove)
This film image released by Focus Features shows Bill Murray as Franklin D. Roosevelt in a scene from "Hyde Park on Hudson." (AP Photo/Focus Features, Nicola Dove)
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Half as long and twice as much fun as the self-important “Lincoln,’’ Roger Michell’s charming sex-and-politics comedy “Hyde Park on Hudson’’ is basically a frothy tabloid take on presidential history. And for my money, that’s a good thing in a season filled with puffed-up prestige pictures.

Anchored by a thoroughly delightful performance by Bill Murray, the film shows President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrestling with two problems as World War II looms in the spring of 1939.

The far weightier one is considerable sentiment against Great Britain by an American public that fears our World War I ally will drag the US into another costly worldwide conflict — one the president knows is absolutely necessary to stop Adolf Hitler.

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