Warm Springs (Film)

Warm Springs is an American television movie from the year 2005. The drama, directed by Joseph Sargent is devoted to the handling of the later U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ( 1882-1945) with his then considered polio suffering.

Action

1921, a year after his unsuccessful candidature for the office of U.S. Vice-President, the politician Franklin D. Roosevelt contracted poliomyelitis. Drawn by paralysis, Roosevelt pulls - after unsuccessful trials of other healing methods and first reluctant - in the spa town of Warm Springs, Georgia, where he is soon exposed to the pressure of his family, to seek his political career. In 1926 he takes this up again and in 1928 he holds the nomination speech for the presidential candidate Alfred E. Smith.

Locations

In addition to various other places in the U.S. state of Georgia, large parts of the film were shot in Warm Springs. Here you attacked inter alia on a specially equipped vehicle back, where the sick Roosevelt drove his time, and also use to his country house. Furthermore, a swimming pool of the old health resort for the shooting was redeveloped.

Reviews

Tom Shales certifies that the lead actor Kenneth Branagh in the Washington Post that this is the person of Franklin D. Roosevelt never will fully address, while a " riveting performance " and delivers " initial concerns scattered ". Roosevelt would not show up as a " one-dimensional living statue, but as a restless, ambitious and sometimes bitterly frustrated man." " Branagh surprise in the role of " certified Noel Holston in Newsweek and comes after the comparison with other Roosevelt performers to the conclusion that none of the " magnetic energy " would similarly well represented. Also, other actors in Warm Springs certifies Holston a convincing performance.

Awards (selection)

The film was nominated for 28 prices, of which he won eight, including five Emmy Awards.

  • Nomination for Best Miniseries or best TV movie
  • Nomination in the category of Best Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Cynthia Nixon
  • Nomination for Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Kenneth Branagh
  • Nomination for Best TV Movie
  • Nomination in the category of Best Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Cynthia Nixon
  • Nomination for Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Kenneth Branagh
  • Nomination in the category Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series or a Movie for Jane Alexander
  • Nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or a Movie for Tim Blake Nelson
  • Nomination in the category of Best Actress in a TV movie or mini - series for Cynthia Nixon
  • Nomination for Best Actor in a TV movie or mini - series for Kenneth Branagh
2005 in film Screenplay Film score Bruce Broughton Television film Warm Springs (Georgia) Georgia (U.S. state) Al Smith 10th Satellite Awards 12th Screen Actors Guild Awards
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