Toronto Film Festival; Roy Thomson Hall; evening screening; a movie about stammering King George VI, with Franklin Roosevelt thrown in for extra star quality. All the auguries were in place for Hyde ...

It has the makings of a deep political drama — or a royally funny farce. On the eve of war in 1939, the young king and queen of England visited Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife at the ...

If a movie about stammering King George VI could score a $400-million triumph at the worldwide box office and a near-sweep of the 2011 Academy Awards, then a film about George VI’s friendship with ...

As Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" continues to flex its presidential muscle on the 2012-2013 movie-awards circuit, it is inevitable that "Hyde Park on Hudson" -- starring Bill Murray as FDR -- will be ...

In June 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Academy Award nominee Bill Murray) and his wife Eleanor (Olivia Williams) host King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England (Samuel West and Olivia ...