Salon.com > Laura Linney http://www.salon.com Sat, 18 May 2013 00:26:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Hyde Park on Hudson”: Bill Murray’s lonely, horny FDR http://www.salon.com/2012/12/06/hyde_park_on_hudson_bill_murrays_lonely_horny_fdr/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/06/hyde_park_on_hudson_bill_murrays_lonely_horny_fdr/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13116243 Amid all the heavyweight, full-length movies of this holiday season, full of epic battle scenes, meaningful monologues and moments of brooding contemplation, “Hyde Park on Hudson” occupies a different niche. It’s a nostalgic historical drama involving the president of the United States, the king of England and a hot dog that's free of philosophical heavy lifting, and it's a story of extramarital love that’s barely naughty enough for grandma. It boasts a couple of delicate and understated performances that might make it into the Oscar race – Bill Murray as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Laura Linney as the distant cousin who becomes his lover – but are almost certain to be displaced in a year full of bigger names and more momentous roles.

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