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3	''Hyde Park on Hudson'' is a 2012 film based on the play of the same name, starring Creator/BillMurray as President UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt and Creator/LauraLinney as his mistress, Margaret "Daisy" Suckley.
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5	The film is set in the 1930s in the Hudson Valley region where Daisy is called to meet with her distant cousin, Franklin Roosevelt, who prefers to work at his mother's house in the summer, to help him relax from his demanding job. They soon become lovers.
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7	Eventually, the relationship is put to the test in 1939 when Roosevelt receives King George VI of Britain and Queen Elizabeth for a visit on the first ever North American tour for a British monarch. Once there, the underconfident king, whose stammer seems to be acting up after [[Film/TheKingsSpeech years of speech therapy]], has considerable trepidations about getting along with the President and the American oddities and slights that seem to bombard him.
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9	Likewise, Daisy has her own problems when she tries to stay out the way for the auspicious occasion, but an impulsive act leads to a heartbreaking discovery about Roosevelt. Now, Daisy must decide on whether her own concerns matter that much compared to the weighty issues that the President must handle.
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11	!!Tropes used:
12	* BerserkButton: The King does '''not''' like to be compared to his brother.
13	* TheCasanova: FDR.
14	* DrinkingOnDuty: Discussed and arguably done by the President and King late at night.
15	* GenteelInterbellumSetting: Towards the end of the period, when everyone knows there will be [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII war in Europe]], but it is yet to break out. (It would break out within three months.)
16	* KarmaHoudini: Roosevelt has [[spoiler:at least three mistresses, including Daisy, and his wife, Eleanor is going along with it. Outside an attempted apology by Franklin in the middle of the night to Daisy when she finds out, he faces no repercussions for it.]]
17	* TheMistress: Daisy, who [[spoiler:at best is #3 in Roosevelt's collection]].
18	* MundaneMadeAwesome: It's remarkable what a British King eating a picnic hot dog in front of the American press can do to help endear a needed ally for an upcoming war.
19	* MyBelovedSmother: FDR's mother can be a very demanding woman.
20	* RealityIsUnrealistic: Some people were creeped out by the pairing of Creator/BillMurray and Laura Linney and Murray's much older character putting the moves on Linney's. Except this film is based on a true story and Roosevelt was a ladies' man.
21	* ReluctantRuler: The King and Queen both are. Historically accurate, since he was not his father's original heir, and only became king due to his elder brother's abdication.
22	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The whole purpose of the royal visit is to win America's assistance in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII for Britain, or at least, Roosevelt's promise of it.
23	* WellDoneSonGuy: After a long nighttime conversation, King George comes to see President Roosevelt as a better father figure than his own biological one ever was.
24	* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory : There is no historical evidence that Daisy had an affair with Roosevelt outside of Daisy's own journals. However, she did (at Roosevelt's instruction) destroy letters he wrote her, leaving some room for speculation. And the other women mentioned as Roosevelt's mistresses actually were.

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