Warm Springs

Year: 2005

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Kathy Bates, Cynthia Nixon, Felicia Day

Duration: 121 min

Following an early and promising political career, Franklin D. Roosevelt (Sir Kenneth Branagh) is stricken with polio in 1921 at thirty-nine years of age. This movie follows his struggle with his paralysis, the refuge he took in an obscure and rundown Warm Springs, Georgia health spa, and the family pressure to return to public life and politics. Perhaps the most significant battle he fought with the stigma of paralysis was not in the eyes of others, but in his own mind.—RosalindLJ

Genre: Action   Biography   Drama