There’s an extraordinary scene about two-thirds of the way through Roger Michell’s Hyde Park on Hudson, in which President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Bill Murray) and King George VI of England (Samuel West) retire for the evening to FDR’s study, for a drink and chat. Tensions and pressure are high; George and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, are visiting Roosevelt’s upstate New York getaway, and no one is all that excited about the trip. But the King must implore the President for support in England’s war against the Nazis. So in that quiet room that summer night in 1939, they drink and they talk, and they begin to let their guards down. These two men of tremendous power and tremendous insecurity open up to each other, and the writing is so eloquent, the direction so gentle, and the playing so sensitive that the scene becomes utterly enthralling. … Read More