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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThe stirring true story of Franklin D. Roosevelt's battle with polio in 1921.The stirring true story of Franklin D. Roosevelt's battle with polio in 1921.The stirring true story of Franklin D. Roosevelt's battle with polio in 1921.
- A remporté 5 prix Primetime Emmy
- 12 victoires et 42 nominations au total
Matt O'Leary
- Fred Botts
- (as Matthew O'Leary)
Andy Davoli
- Jake Perini
- (as Andrew Davoli)
Brian F. Durkin
- Elliott Roosevelt
- (as Brian Durkin)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesMost of the actors and actresses playing disabled people in this movie are actually disabled, including "I Won't Dance" cast member Teal Sherer.
- GaffesIn the opening scene, newsreel from the Democrat National Convention of 1920 shows FDR talking and people cheering as part of the film. Film with sound wasn't invented until 1927, and even then was quite rare until 1930 or 1931.
- Citations
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: [on first arriving at Warm Springs] This place should be condemned!
Tom Loyless: We have seen better times. But then, I imagine, so have you.
- ConnexionsFeatured in Warm Springs: Making of Featurette (2005)
- Bandes originalesI'll See You In My Dreams
Written by Isham Jones and Gus Kahn
Performed by Alice Faye
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Commentaire en vedette
This is a very good film on the evolution of FDR from having a rather detached philosophy of noblesse oblige to having the cause of the downtrodden brought up close and personal when he becomes crippled from polio at the age of 39.
The acting and production values are superb, but the film tries to paint over a few things in order to make FDR's evolution look more perfect than it was. The truth is FDR and his wife Eleanor never truly reconciled after his illness as is shown in the film. It did not bring them close together. The only reason they did not divorce was the insistence of Roosevelt's mother, and then as FDR got more involved in politics, appearance was involved in them staying together. FDR and Lucy Mercer, the woman he wanted to divorce Eleanor for, carried on a relationship of sorts from 1915 until Roosevelt died in 1945. Lucy Mercer was with him when he died at Warm Springs. I say this not as a character assassination of a truly great leader long dead, but to point out that a person can be far less than perfect personally and still be that truly great leader. This film's makers seem to think the viewer is not smart enough to deal with that.
There is one bit more of oversimplification that made me roll my eyes. After FDR gets involved in the running of Warm Springs, some patients from the Northeast arrive. One of them, with an obvious New York accent, shakes the hands of one of the black caretakers. The black caretaker looks shocked to be treated as an equal by a white man. The insinuation here is that racial prejudice did not exist in the Northeastern U.S. which is poppycock. Some of the most racially prejudiced people you'll meet are from the Northern U.S. See some episodes of "All in the Family" to see the awful truth.
Now in only two paragraphs I can tell you everything I don't like about this film and I just did that. If not for these two white-washings I'd give it ten stars and I still highly recommend you watch it if you get the chance. Cynthia Nixon really makes you believe she is Eleanor Roosevelt, and Kenneth Branagh is superb as FDR, a man who has to come to terms with his new limitations and yet sees how lucky he was to have at least 39 years of good health and the financial resources to deal with his own health and maybe help some other people too. There's always someone worse off than you are, and maybe you can lend them a helping hand is the inspirational message of this film to me. Highly recommended.
The acting and production values are superb, but the film tries to paint over a few things in order to make FDR's evolution look more perfect than it was. The truth is FDR and his wife Eleanor never truly reconciled after his illness as is shown in the film. It did not bring them close together. The only reason they did not divorce was the insistence of Roosevelt's mother, and then as FDR got more involved in politics, appearance was involved in them staying together. FDR and Lucy Mercer, the woman he wanted to divorce Eleanor for, carried on a relationship of sorts from 1915 until Roosevelt died in 1945. Lucy Mercer was with him when he died at Warm Springs. I say this not as a character assassination of a truly great leader long dead, but to point out that a person can be far less than perfect personally and still be that truly great leader. This film's makers seem to think the viewer is not smart enough to deal with that.
There is one bit more of oversimplification that made me roll my eyes. After FDR gets involved in the running of Warm Springs, some patients from the Northeast arrive. One of them, with an obvious New York accent, shakes the hands of one of the black caretakers. The black caretaker looks shocked to be treated as an equal by a white man. The insinuation here is that racial prejudice did not exist in the Northeastern U.S. which is poppycock. Some of the most racially prejudiced people you'll meet are from the Northern U.S. See some episodes of "All in the Family" to see the awful truth.
Now in only two paragraphs I can tell you everything I don't like about this film and I just did that. If not for these two white-washings I'd give it ten stars and I still highly recommend you watch it if you get the chance. Cynthia Nixon really makes you believe she is Eleanor Roosevelt, and Kenneth Branagh is superb as FDR, a man who has to come to terms with his new limitations and yet sees how lucky he was to have at least 39 years of good health and the financial resources to deal with his own health and maybe help some other people too. There's always someone worse off than you are, and maybe you can lend them a helping hand is the inspirational message of this film to me. Highly recommended.
- AlsExGal
- 3 juill. 2013
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Sites officiels
- Langues
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Warm Springs
- Lieux de tournage
- Summerville, Géorgie, États-Unis(train depot)
- sociétés de production
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- Budget
- 13 000 000 $ US (estimation)
- Durée2 heures 1 minute
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 1.78 : 1
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