While the acting is good I have to credit Hyde Park on Hudson with being one of the most boring movies I've seen from last year thus far. I understand the appeal of wanting to make the movie, but there are two things that make this documented time in FDR's presidency uninteresting. The biggest one being that anytime you put cousin and relationship in the same lump it just doesn't make for an appealing sounding movie. Secondly, nothing interesting happens. We see a lot of mistresses pop up, some which we know were definitely women he had been seeing and others that are still rumors to this day.
Summary: It wasn't something that really happened, but FDR found it possible during his presidency. The King and Queen of England were set to visit New York to meet FDR on his property where he lived, Hyde Park on Hudson, as he called it. During that weekend though, FDR reaches out to his distant cousin, Daisy, in the search for some new company. There meeting turns into something more very quickly though, and before she knows it she has formed deep feelings for him, but it isn't without complications.
