1939. In the US, in the midst of the Great Depression, and Europe is preparing for another large-scale war with fascist coalition. British king George stutterer IV (Samuel West) and Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) for the first time in the history of going to visit the US and even in the bargain ask President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Bill Murray) for help in the impending war. Everything seems to be saying that the "Hyde Park on the Hudson" - a film purely political and depressing, if not love line, which to some extent shifted towards all this commotion global scale. Roosevelt in the status of a family man has found the same relationship with his cousin Daisy pyatiyurodnoy (Laura Linney), on behalf of which the narrator in the film Roger Mitchell.
Found after the death of this Daisy Saclay diaries and letters under the bed, in which not only the figure of Roosevelt, and monarchs have acquired previously unknown details, prompted the director to the idea of filming "Hyde Park on the Hudson." Indeed, in this picture of paramount importance not only events that shook the world as the personality of each individual character with his dignity, wit or thin-skinned, with his fears and complexes, with a desire to deal with them. After all, the fate not heard by the names and characters. And whether the narrator is not a woman, perhaps the story would come out completely different - and unemotional static.
At the same time the film Mitchell notable not only for facial features, but also the historical details of what was happening. For example, very few people knew that Roosevelt all their presidential terms spent in a wheelchair and crutches due to polio. And just because the press, to which Roosevelt was able to negotiate, not allowed to print pictures of the president in a wheelchair. The only pictures of Franklin in a wheelchair belong to the authorship of the same Daisy Saclay.
"Hyde Park on the Hudson" - a real game of opposites, which should lead all to a common denominator. Crony US vs. UK conservative. Sarcastic humor against American English boring. Optimistic Roosevelt, despite being tired from all political and personal crises, against a cornered own complexes to a standstill George IV. And the women are around all of the sudden, all contradictory. But all of these curves Verkhovod mirrors still president.
He sees everything in advance. His physical inability to walk is compensated by its ability to count other people's steps and take risks. His credo - «why so serious? ". For example, Roosevelt openly laughing at the British traditionalism, the royal couple settled in the most curious room of his house on the Hudson with caricatures of the British in the lovely framed and offering them instead of grouse for dinner ordinary hot dogs. Yes, and asks with a wink: "mustard? "But his actions no share of bullying or arrogance. "We are all ordinary people, despite the regalia - he complains. - So why all this pathos and hypocrisy? "Roosevelt Mitchell allegedly paraphrased aphorism Ivan" we, the kings, for the harm it is necessary to give the milk for free "with the only difference being that instead of milk just enough to be able to relax.
Somewhere in the middle of the movie the whole way in his board guy almost perfect man, eclipsed all the other characters, like already starts to bother, as once again the cause of love line breaks with Daisy, with which everything turns out not so smooth. In general, Roosevelt's good is scum for any self-respecting woman. But the plot unfolds again so that he forgive everything, allowing for the human factor. In the end, all tend to make mistakes, and the president is no exception.