Warm springs [videorecording] / HBO Films presents a Mark Gordon Company production ; a Joseph Sargent film ; producer, Chrisann Verges ; written by Margaret Nagle ; director, Joseph Sargent.
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FilmPublisher number: 92752 | HBO VideoLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publication details: [New York, N.Y.] : HBO Video, 2005.Description: 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0783134886
- 9780783134888
- Cinematographer, Robbie Greenberg ; music, Bruce Broughton ; production designer, Sarah Knowles ; editor, Michael Brown.
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Main Library | DVD | DRAMA Warm spr | Available | 33111006200576 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In the tradition of Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello, the made-for-cable biopic Warm Springs focuses on one of the least publicized aspects in the life of America's most-publicized (and longest-serving) president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, here played brilliantly by British actor Kenneth Branagh. Like Sunrise, Warm Springs uses as its starting point the year 1921, when the 39-year-old Roosevelt was permanently paralyzed from the waist down by an attack of polio. But whereas the earlier film concentrated on FDR's battle to return to public life despite his handicap, this film zeroes in on Roosevelt's efforts to cure himself of his affliction. Having heard of the therapeutic value of the waters of Warm Springs in rural Georgia, Roosevelt makes a pilgrimage to the area, which is little more than a swamp surrounded by dilapidated shacks. Though he never experiences the "miracle" cure that he so desperately seeks, Roosevelt is instrumental in the conversion of Warm Springs from a backwater hellhole to a streamlined, efficiently managed polio-treatment center, a virtual mecca for hundreds of thousands of others who had been crippled by the debilitating illness. And in the process, he also brings hope, optimism, and racial enlightenment to the poverty-stricken, multiethnic citizens of Warm Springs. Even more significantly, FDR removes the stigma of polio from the public consciousness, forever abolishing the misguided notions that the disease adversely affected the brain, that it could be spread merely by physical contact, or that it represented celestial "punishment" of the victim (it is noted, however, that Roosevelt was always careful never to reveal the true extent of his immobility nor his atrophied legs in public, feeling that it might diminish the nation's image of an "invulnerable" Commander in Chief). Also in the cast are Cynthia Nixon as Roosevelt's devoted wife, Eleanor; Jane Alexander (who'd previously played Eleanor Roosevelt in two TV miniseries) as his over-protective mother Sara; David Paymer as his crusty chief aide Louis Howe; Kathy Bates as his no-nonsense physical therapist Helena Mahoney; and Tim Blake Nelson as Tom Loyless, the man in charge of Warm Springs. Originally telecast by HBO on April 30, 2005. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Originally broadcast on television.
Special features: Audio commentary; deleted scenes; featurette.
Title from container.
Cinematographer, Robbie Greenberg ; music, Bruce Broughton ; production designer, Sarah Knowles ; editor, Michael Brown.
Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, David Paymer, Kathy Bates, Tim Blake Nelson, Matt O'Leary, Andrew Davoli, Nelsan Ellis, Jane Alexander, Sharon Blackwood.
The inspiring true story about Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, who seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
MPAA rating: PG.
DVD, widescreen presentation; Dolby surround 5.1, Dolby surround stereo 2.0.
English and Spanish dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles ; close-captioned.