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Warm Springs
Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
2005 · Directed by Joseph Sargent · 121 min · Drama · TV Movie · Screenplay in the scene database · 3 frames
Tagline
The greatest challenge FDR faced was the one we never saw.
Plot
The film opens in 1924 with a paralyzed Franklin D. Roosevelt living in semi-isolation on a Florida houseboat with two male attendants. He reminisces about running as vice president during the 1920 presidential election. Franklin, a Harvard-educated lawyer, New York assemblyman, and assistant Secretary of the Navy, gave a rousing speech, mentioning his cousin President Teddy Roosevelt's own run as vice president. Republican Warren Harding won the election, but Franklin's political rise had begun, though his opponents consider the arrogant Franklin a political lightweight.
When Franklin's wife, Eleanor discovers his extra-marital affair, they remained married but with mostly separate lives. Franklin was stricken with polio, leaving his lower body paralyzed. Devastated and refusing to be a burden, Franklin left for Florida to live on the houseboat.
When a storm wrecks the houseboat, Franklin and his attendants head to a nearby restaurant. Louis Howe, Franklin's political adviser, arrives and urges Franklin to return to New York and resume his political career. However. Franklin's old friend George Foster Peabody invites him stay at his resort, the Meriweather Inn, in Warm Springs, Georgia. Peabody claims a handicapped boy could walk while in the therapeutic mineral waters. Intrigued, Franklin heads to Warm Springs, along with Eleanor.
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Crew
- Written by: Margaret Nagle
- Edited by: Michael Brown
- Music: Bruce Broughton
Cast
- Kenneth Branagh as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Cynthia Nixon as Eleanor Roosevelt
- David Paymer as Louis Howe
- Tim Blake Nelson as Tom Loyless
- Matt O'Leary as Fred Botts
- Matt Malloy as Lionel Purdy
- Andy Davoli as Jake Perini
- Nelsan Ellis as Roy Collier
- Jane Alexander as Sara Delano Roosevelt
- Kathy Bates as Helena Mahoney
Production
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