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* PhysicalTherapyPlot: FDR goes into physical therapy after contracting polio. He hopes to resume his political career once he has finished rehabilitation.
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* TheRoaringTwenties: The film is set from 1920, when Roosevelt was Democratic party's vice-presidential candidate, to 1928, when Roosevelt made his political comeback at the Democratic National Convention.
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* TheTwenties: The film is set from 1920, when Roosevelt was Democratic party's vice-presidential candidate, to 1928, when Roosevelt made his political comeback at the Democratic National Convention.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The treatment of the handicapped can disgust the modern viewer. A good example is when Roosevelt learns that a teenager crippled by polio was ''locked up in a baggage car'' with no food. In our time, the railroad would have ''sued'' since laws now require that public places accommodate people with disabilities.Even Franklin's mother called the inn a leper colony.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The treatment of the handicapped can disgust the modern viewer. A good example is when Roosevelt learns that a teenager crippled by polio was ''locked up in a baggage car'' with no food. In our time, the railroad would have ''sued'' since laws now require that public places accommodate people with disabilities. Even Franklin's mother called the inn a leper colony.
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FranklinDRoosevelt (Creator/KennethBranagh) is an up and coming politician in 1920. Though having been the vice-presidential candidate of ill-fated James Cox campaign, his political future is bright. However, a year later, Roosevelt contracts polio and loses the ability to walk, putting his political career on hold.
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Compare ''Film/SunriseAtCampobello'', a somewhat more historically accurate portrayal of this period in FDR's life.
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FranklinDRoosevelt (KennethBranagh) (Creator/KennethBranagh) is an up and coming politician in 1920. Though having been the vice-presidential candidate of ill-fated James Cox campaign, his political future is bright. However, a year later, Roosevelt contracts polio and loses the ability to walk, putting his political career on hold.
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Warm Springs is a 2005 MadeForTVMovie directed by Joseph Sargent and produced by HBO.
Franklin Roosevelt (KennethBranagh) is an up and coming politician in 1920. Though having been the vice-presidential candidate of ill-fated James Cox campaign, his political future is bright. However, a year later, Roosevelt contracts polio and loses the ability to walk, putting his political career on hold.
Franklin Roosevelt (KennethBranagh) is an up and coming politician in 1920. Though having been the vice-presidential candidate of ill-fated James Cox campaign, his political future is bright. However, a year later, Roosevelt contracts polio and loses the ability to walk, putting his political career on hold.
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Franklin Roosevelt
FranklinDRoosevelt (KennethBranagh) is an up and coming politician in 1920. Though having been the vice-presidential candidate of ill-fated James Cox campaign, his political future is bright. However, a year later, Roosevelt contracts polio and loses the ability to walk, putting his political career on hold.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Closer to VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory, actually. FDR never went on an AchillesInHisTent withdrawal from public life as the movie suggests; in RealLife he was thinking the whole time about how he might continue to advance his career despite being crippled by polio. The
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* HidingTheHandicap: Franklin does this out of political necessity. A technique that involves using his son's strength, moving his torso, leg braces, and cane allowed him to make people think he could walk on his own. One of the photographers is physically prevented from taking a picture of Franklin being carried.
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* HidingTheHandicap: Franklin does this out of political necessity. A technique that involves using his son's strength, moving his torso, leg braces, and cane allowed him to make people think he could walk on his own. One of the photographers is physically prevented from taking a picture of Franklin being carried.[[note]]In RealLife there are only four known photographs of FDR in his wheelchair; [[https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roosevelt_in_a_wheelchair.jpg here's one]].[[/note]]
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* NonIdleRich: Franklin was a vice-presidential candidate and assistant secretary to the Navy before reorganizing a run-down resort into a rehabilitation center. We know where he went from there.
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* FakeAmerican: The Irish Kenneth Branagh plays Franklin Roosevelt.
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* OscarBait: [[FutureFamousPeople FutureUSPresident]] overcoming a disability to return to politics? Yep. Did it win Emmys? Yes it did.
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* HandicappedBadass: Roosevelt, especially when he knocks down the train conductor that locked a kid in a baggage car.
* HidingTheHandicap: Franklin does this out of political necessity. A technique that involves using his son's strength, moving his torso, leg braces, and cane allowed him to make people think he could walk on his own.
* HidingTheHandicap: Franklin does this out of political necessity. A technique that involves using his son's strength, moving his torso, leg braces, and cane allowed him to make people think he could walk on his own.
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* HandicappedBadass: Roosevelt, The film shows Franklin's growth from an isolated, depressed man, to the confident, tenacious politician he would becomes His badass is especially shown when he knocks down the train conductor that locked a kid in a baggage car.
* HidingTheHandicap: Franklin does this out of political necessity. A technique that involves using his son's strength, moving his torso, leg braces, and cane allowed him to make people think he could walk on his own. One of the photographers is physically prevented from taking a picture of Franklin being carried.
* HidingTheHandicap: Franklin does this out of political necessity. A technique that involves using his son's strength, moving his torso, leg braces, and cane allowed him to make people think he could walk on his own. One of the photographers is physically prevented from taking a picture of Franklin being carried.
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** One of the black employees at the resort is reluctant to shake the hand of the one of the polio victims from New York.
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** One of the black employees at the resort is reluctant to shake the hand of the one of the white polio victims from New York.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In-universe. Al Smith, whose nomination by Franklin at the 1928 Democratic National Convention would bring Franklin back to public life, was asked by an aide if he feared creating a rival. Al Smith replied, "Mark my words, he'll be dead in a year." Anybody who has glanced at history book will tell you [[ForegoneConclusion that's not what happened.]]
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* TheTwenties: The film is set from 1920, when Roosevelt was Democratic party's vice-presidential candidate, to 1928, when Roosevelt made his political comeback
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The treatment of the handicapped as deviants can disgust the modern viewer. A good example is when Roosevelt learns that a teenager crippled by polio was ''locked up in a baggage car'' with no food. In our time, the railroad would have ''sued'' since laws now require that public places accommodate people with disabilities.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The treatment of the handicapped as deviants can disgust the modern viewer. A good example is when Roosevelt learns that a teenager crippled by polio was ''locked up in a baggage car'' with no food. In our time, the railroad would have ''sued'' since laws now require that public places accommodate people with disabilities. Even Franklin's mother called the inn a leper colony.
** The film argues that Franklin's disgust at the treatment of handicapped individuals turned him into man that would fight human suffering as president.
** The film argues that Franklin's disgust at the treatment of handicapped individuals turned him into man that would fight human suffering as president.
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* HonestAdvisor: Louis Howe (David Paymer), who opposes Roosevelt's attempts to create a polio rehab center, and would prefer he return to politics, even ensuring he keeps in touch with his political allies for the day that he does, and also helps Eleanor enter the spotlight.
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* HidingTheHandicap: Franklin does this out of political necessity. A technique that involves using his son's strength, moving his torso, leg braces, and cane allowed him to make people think he could walk on his own.
* HonestAdvisor: Louis Howe (DavidPaymer), Paymer) who opposes Roosevelt's attempts actively encourages Franklin to return to public life, ensures he remains in contact with his political allies, and would prefer he not invest his time in Warm Springs, and create a polio rehab center, and would prefer he return to politics, even ensuring he keeps in touch with his political allies for the day that he does, and clinic. He also helps pushes Eleanor enter into entering public life, turning from a shy woman into the spotlight.powerful public figure she would become in later life.
* MyBelovedSmother: Sara Roosevelt had a strong influence on Franklin that lasted into his adulthood. She prefered that Franklin give up politics and live at home with her.
* HonestAdvisor: Louis Howe (David
* MyBelovedSmother: Sara Roosevelt had a strong influence on Franklin that lasted into his adulthood. She prefered that Franklin give up politics and live at home with her.
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* TheTwenties: The film is set from 1920, when Roosevelt was Democratic party's vice-presidential candidate, to 1928, when Roosevelt made his political comeback
* TheTwenties: The film is set from 1920, when Roosevelt was Democratic party's vice-presidential candidate, to 1928, when Roosevelt made his political comeback
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* HandicappedBadass: Roosevelt, especially when he knocks down the train conductor that locked a kid in a baggage car.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The treatment of the handicapped as deviants can disgust the modern viewer. A good example is when Roosevelt learns that a teenager crippled by polio was ''locked up in a baggage car'' with no food. In our time, the railroad would have ''sued'' since laws now require that public places accommodate people with disabilities.
* HandicappedBadass: Roosevelt, especially when he knocks down the train conductor that locked a kid in a baggagecar.car.
* HonestAdvisor: Louis Howe (David Paymer), who opposes Roosevelt's attempts to create a polio rehab center, and would prefer he return to politics, even ensuring he keeps in touch with his political allies for the day that he does, and also helps Eleanor enter the spotlight.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted.
** The train station is divided the "white" and "colored" section.
** Tom Loyless himself was forced out of the newspaper business because he had "offended the sensibilities of a [[TheKlan local civic group.]] In RealLife, Tom Loyless had been one of the few newspaper editors in Georgia to support Leo Frank, whose trial and lynching led to the rebirth of the KKK.
** One of the black employees at the resort is reluctant to shake the hand of the one of the polio victims from New York
* HandicappedBadass: Roosevelt, especially when he knocks down the train conductor that locked a kid in a baggage
* HonestAdvisor: Louis Howe (David Paymer), who opposes Roosevelt's attempts to create a polio rehab center, and would prefer he return to politics, even ensuring he keeps in touch with his political allies for the day that he does, and also helps Eleanor enter the spotlight.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted.
** The train station is divided the "white" and "colored" section.
** Tom Loyless himself was forced out of the newspaper business because he had "offended the sensibilities of a [[TheKlan local civic group.]] In RealLife, Tom Loyless had been one of the few newspaper editors in Georgia to support Leo Frank, whose trial and lynching led to the rebirth of the KKK.
** One of the black employees at the resort is reluctant to shake the hand of the one of the polio victims from New York
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Franklin Roosevelt (Kenneth Branagh) is an up and coming politician in 1920. Though having been the vice-presidential candidate of ill-fated James Cox campaign, his political future is bright. However, a year later, Roosevelt contracts polio and loses the ability to walk, putting his political career to a halt.
A few years later, Roosevelt has been hiding out in Florida when he is invited to a resort in rural Georgia, where the waters are said to help paralyzed people walk. The film details Roosevelt's time in Warm Springs where he attempts to regain the ability to walk, and his growth in understanding the plight of America's downtrodden.
A few years later, Roosevelt has been hiding out in Florida when he is invited to a resort in rural Georgia, where the waters are said to help paralyzed people walk. The film details Roosevelt's time in Warm Springs where he attempts to regain the ability to walk, and his growth in understanding the plight of America's downtrodden.
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Franklin Roosevelt (Kenneth Branagh) (KennethBranagh) is an up and coming politician in 1920. Though having been the vice-presidential candidate of ill-fated James Cox campaign, his political future is bright. However, a year later, Roosevelt contracts polio and loses the ability to walk, putting his political career to a halt.
on hold.
A few years later, Roosevelt has been hiding out in Florida when he is invited to a resort in rural Georgia, managed by Tom Loyless (TimBlakeNelson) where the waters are said to help paralyzed peoplewalk. walk. The film movie details Roosevelt's time in spent Warm Springs where he attempts to regain the ability to walk, Springs, his purchase and transforming it into a polio rehabilitation center, to his growth in own personal transformation into understanding the plight suffering many people like him endured, and ends at the 1928 Democratic National Convention where he would give his nomination to Al Smith, and resume his political career.
It was critically acclaimed and was nominated for sixteen Emmys, winning five and a Director's Guild ofAmerica's downtrodden.America award for Joseph Sargent.
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* HandicappedBadass: Roosevelt, especially when he knocks down the train conductor that locked a kid in a baggage car.
A few years later, Roosevelt has been hiding out in Florida when he is invited to a resort in rural Georgia, managed by Tom Loyless (TimBlakeNelson) where the waters are said to help paralyzed people
It was critically acclaimed and was nominated for sixteen Emmys, winning five and a Director's Guild of
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* HandicappedBadass: Roosevelt, especially when he knocks down the train conductor that locked a kid in a baggage car.
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Warm Springs is a 2005 MadeForTVMovie directed by Joseph Sargent and produced by HBO.
Franklin Roosevelt (Kenneth Branagh) is an up and coming politician in 1920. Though having been the vice-presidential candidate of ill-fated James Cox campaign, his political future is bright. However, a year later, Roosevelt contracts polio and loses the ability to walk, putting his political career to a halt.
A few years later, Roosevelt has been hiding out in Florida when he is invited to a resort in rural Georgia, where the waters are said to help paralyzed people walk. The film details Roosevelt's time in Warm Springs where he attempts to regain the ability to walk, and his growth in understanding the plight of America's downtrodden.
Franklin Roosevelt (Kenneth Branagh) is an up and coming politician in 1920. Though having been the vice-presidential candidate of ill-fated James Cox campaign, his political future is bright. However, a year later, Roosevelt contracts polio and loses the ability to walk, putting his political career to a halt.
A few years later, Roosevelt has been hiding out in Florida when he is invited to a resort in rural Georgia, where the waters are said to help paralyzed people walk. The film details Roosevelt's time in Warm Springs where he attempts to regain the ability to walk, and his growth in understanding the plight of America's downtrodden.
