Warm Springs

Beyond documentary is this intensely captivating drama of Franklin D. Roosevelt's midlife struggle with polio and depression. A great look at how severe illness and tragedy forge sensitivity, strength, and character into the former and incredibly popular US president Franklin D Roosevelt. Actor Kenneth Branagh sheds all Englishness and BECOMES a very real FDR. He makes this movie work! Though the story covers less than a decade of FDR's life, it surely is the most crucial time of his life. Recommended.