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HBO Presents: Warm Springs | 
| Director: Joseph Sargent
Actors: Jane Alexander, Kathy Bates, Wilbur Fitzgerald, Terry Loughlin, Matt Malloy
Studio: HBO Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: CDN$ 24.98
Buy New: CDN$ 17.48
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2546
Format: Ac-3, Dolby, Dubbed, Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D92752D
ISBN: 0783134886
UPC: 026359275227
EAN: 9780783134888
ASIN: B0009UVBI6
Theatrical Release Date: April 30, 2005
Release Date: September 2, 2008 (In 3 Days)
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
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| Editorial Reviews:
From Amazon.com
Warm Springs is a riveting, deeply moving film about a lesser-known chapter in the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the American president who saw his country through the dark, terrible times of the Great Depression and most of World War II. Before those epochal events, however, Roosevelt spent time in a political wilderness, groomed for high office but struck down by polio at age 39. Warm Springs is the fascinating story of Roosevelt's painful journey from despair back to wisdom and leadership. Kenneth Branagh gives an emotionally raw, courageous performance as FDR, estranged from his wife, Eleanor (a near-luminous Cynthia Nixon), and his political guru (David Paymer) while ambivalently seeking rehabilitation at Warm Springs, a broken-down spa in the backwoods of Georgia. Mired in misery, misanthropy, and drink, Roosevelt is coaxed back to civilized behavior and a glimmer of altruism by the spa's ailing, folksy manager, Tom Loyless (a remarkable Tim Blake Nelson), and the ministrations of a progressive-minded, physical therapist (solid work by Kathy Bates). Word of Roosevelt's improvement in the buoyant, mineral-rich waters of Warm Springs draws other polio victims--some of whom endure terrible discrimination and misery while traveling—to the spa. In time, these hopeful, all-ages paraplegics form a community that inspires a sense of mission in Roosevelt, setting the stage for his return to the political arena. Surehanded, 80-year-old veteran director Joseph Sargent (on a roll following his lovely, 2004 cable movie Something the Lord Made) has made a pitch-perfect and intimate, historical drama one never wants to see end. --Tom Keogh
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| Customer Reviews:
a masterpiece! September 5, 2006
For my money FDR was the finest president the U.S. ever produced. Probably the last president who run for office because he believe it was his public duty as opposed to the ones who run now for power and money. The fact that he was disabled and so few people realized it only testified to the strength and courage of both himself and Eleanor. Kenneth Branagh and company do a superb job of showing the man behind the jaunty smile and confident air. Would that we had such leaders in the world today.
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