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Warm Springs is a 2005 made-for-television biography drama film directed by Joseph Sargent, written by Margaret Nagle, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, Kathy Bates, Tim Blake Nelson, Jane Alexander, and David Paymer.
After polio threatens his political career in the early 1920s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Kenneth Branagh) desperately searches for a cure to his newly acquired disease, hoping to regain the use ...
- Drama, Biography
Warm Springs: Directed by Joseph Sargent. With Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, David Paymer, Tim Blake Nelson. The stirring true story of Franklin D. Roosevelt's battle with polio in 1921.
The trailer for the HBO film Warm Springs.Starring Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, Kathy BatesWritten by Margaret NagleDirected by Joe Sargent.
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.
Chronicles the life of president Franklin Delano Roosevelt before he became president until his death, centering on his paralysis from polio, his treatment at the Warm Springs rehab facility, and his battle to overcome his handicaps. As he seeks out a cure for his paralysis, he discovers other with.
Joseph Sargent’s Warm Springs is a seemingly forgotten, HBO Emmy winning (recipient of 5 emmys out of SIXTEEN nominations) made-for-tv movie about President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s battle with polio.
