Release Date
December 7, 2012 (Limited)
DVD Release Date
April 9, 2013 (Buy on Amazon)
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Running Time
95 minutes
MPAA Rating
Rated R for brief sexuality
In June 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Bill Murray) and his wife Eleanor (Olivia Williams) host the King and Queen of England (Samuel West, Olivia Colman) for a weekend at the Roosevelt home at Hyde Park on Hudson, in upstate New York – the first-ever visit of a reigning English monarch to America. With Britain facing imminent war with Germany, the Royals are desperately looking to FDR for support. But international affairs must be juggled... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
Bill Murray plays someone other than Bill Murray for a change in the entertaining but wildly inconsistent Hyde Park on Hudson, a film that is at once a romantic drama and a lighthearted comedy. From the director of Venus and Notting Hill, Hyde Park on Hudson works best when it's funny - and falls flat when it tries to be something more.
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