Warm Springs (film)
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| Written by | Margaret Nagle |
| Directed by | Joseph Sargent |
| Starring |
Kenneth Branagh Cynthia Nixon Kathy Bates Tim Blake Nelson Jane Alexander David Paymer |
| Theme music composer | Bruce Broughton |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Chrisann Verges |
| Cinematography | Robbie Greenberg |
| Editor(s) | Michael Brown |
| Running time | 121 minutes |
| Distributor | HBO |
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Warm Springs is a 2005 television film about U.S. 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. Roosevelt's emotional growth as he interacts with other disabled people at Warm Springs prepares him for the challenges he will face as President during the Great Depression. The film is not a remake of Sunrise at Campobello.
The film begin with a scene of the 1920 presidential election. Later in the 1920s, Roosevelt's infantile paralysis sets in. He receives an invitation from George Foster Peabody to go to Warm Springs, Georgia for treatment.
The movie ends with Roosevelt attending the nominating convention of Al Smith in 1928.
Actress Jane Alexander who plays Sara Delano Roosevelt, FDR's mother; also played Eleanor Roosevelt in the acclaimed 1976 telefilm Eleanor and Franklin and its 1977 sequel Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years. Many of the bit part actors in the film are actually physically challenged, though Branagh and several other of the principal actors are not. The withered appearance of Branagh's legs was achieved through the use of CGI.
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