Warm Springs is a 2005 television movie about American President Franklin D. Roosevelt's struggle with polio, his discovery of the Warm Springs, Georgia spa resort and his work to turn it into a center for the aid of polio victims, and his resumption of his political career. The year 2005 in film involved some significant events Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Devil's Rejects, Cheaper The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute viral Infectious disease spread from person to person primarily via Warm Springs is a City in Meriwether County, Georgia, United States. See also Mineral spa A spa town, or simply spa, is a town frequented mainly for health reasons to "take the waters"
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Casting
The film stars Kenneth Branagh as Roosevelt, Cynthia Nixon as Eleanor Roosevelt, Kathy Bates as physical therapist Helena Mahoney, and Tim Blake Nelson as Tom Loyless. Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is an Emmy Award -winning Academy Award -nominated Northern Irish Actor Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American Tony - and two-time Emmy Award -winning actress who is known Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (ˈɛlɪnɔr ˈroʊzəvɛlt October 11 1884 &ndash November 7 1962 Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an Academy Award two-time Golden Globe and two-time Screen Actors Guild Tim Blake Nelson (born November 5, 1964) is an American director, Singer and Actor. Tom W Loyless (abt1871 - March 19 1926 is now best known as the managing owner of the Warm Springs spa resort (for which his financial backer was George Foster Jane Alexander plays Sara Delano Roosevelt, FDR's mother; she played Eleanor Roosevelt in the acclaimed 1976 telefilm Eleanor and Franklin and its 1977 sequel Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years. For the Anglican Bishop see Jane Alexander (Bishop Jane Alexander (born October 28 1939) is an American award-winning Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt ( September 21 1854 &ndash September 7 1941) was the wife of James Roosevelt and the mother of Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Eleanor and Franklin ( 1976) is a Television movie released on January 11, 1976, starring Edward Hermann as Franklin Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Many of the bit part actors in the film are actually disabled, though Branagh and several other of the principal actors are not. A bit part is a supporting acting role with at least one line of dialogue The withered look on Branagh's legs was achieved through the use of CGI. Computer animation Computer-generated imagery (also known as CGI) is the application of the field of Computer graphics or more specifically 3D computer graphics
Production
The film was produced by HBO Films and directed by Joseph Sargent. HBO Films is a division of the Cable television network HBO that produces Feature films and Miniseries. Joseph Sargent (born 22 July 1925, Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American Film director. The majority of the film was made at Warm Springs, Georgia and its surrounding locations. Warm Springs is a City in Meriwether County, Georgia, United States. The producers strove to make sure that many of the physical details were as authentic as possible. For example, Kenneth Branagh, as Roosevelt, is seen driving the very same specially-equipped automobile that FDR was taught to drive at Warm Springs. The cottage that Roosevelt stays in during the film is one of the cottages that the real FDR stayed in. And the swimming pool in which the patients swim in is the actual therapeutic swimming pool at Warm Springs, refurbished specifically for the film.
Reception
The film was nearly unanimously praised by the critics, and won five Emmy Awards out of an astounding sixteen nominations, including Outstanding Made-for-Television Movie, Best Supporting Actress in a Made-For-Television Movie (Jane Alexander), and Best Original Score (Bruce Broughton). Bruce Broughton (born March 8, 1945 in Los Angeles California, U Joseph Sargent, who was also Emmy-nominated for his direction, did not win. He did, however, receive a Directors Guild of America award for Warm Springs. Directors Guild of America ( DGA) is the labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States Screenwriter Margaret Nagle won a Writers Guild of America Award for her script. Margaret Nagle, (born January 12, 1969, Berkeley, California is a Screenwriter, Television producer and Actress The Writers Guild of America Award for outstanding achievements in Film, Television, and Radio has been presented annually by the Writers Guild of The film was also nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, but did not receive any. The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and Television programs given out each year during a formal dinner
Historical Basis
Interestingly, a peer-reviewed study in 2003 determined that Roosevelt's paralytic illness was more likely caused by Guillain-Barré syndrome, not polio. Franklin D Roosevelt 's paralysis has become a major part of his image today even though during his life it was kept from public view and rarely discussed in public Guillain-Barré syndrome ( GBS) (in French ɡilɛ̃ baˈʁe in English ˈɡiːlæn ˈbɑreɪ /ɡiːˈæn bəˈreɪ/ etc Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute viral Infectious disease spread from person to person primarily via However, the film is accurate in that Roosevelt and everyone around him would have believed that his symptoms were caused by polio, which was epidemic in the U. S. at the time.
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