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Directed by | Roger Michell |
Written by | Richard Nelson |
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Cinematography | Lol Crawley |
Edited by | Nicolas Gaster |
Music by | Jeremy Sams |
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Distributed by | Focus Features (United States)[1] Universal Pictures (United Kingdom) |
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Running time | 95 minutes[2] |
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Language | English |
Box office | $8.9 million[4] |
Hyde Park on Hudson is a 2012 historical drama film directed by Roger Michell. The film stars Bill Murray as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel West as King George VI, Olivia Colman as his wife Queen Elizabeth and Laura Linney as Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, a cousin and childhood friend of the President. It was based on Suckley's private journals and diaries, discovered after her death and fictionally dramatizes her close relationship with Roosevelt and the 1939 visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Roosevelt's country estate.[5][6][7]