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 Warm Springs is a 2005 Made-for-TV Movie directed by Joseph Sargent and produced by HBO.Franklin D. Roosevelt (Kenneth Branagh) is an up and coming politician in 1920. Though having been the vice-presidential candidate of ill-fated James Cox campaign, his political future is bright. However, a year later, Roosevelt contracts polio and loses the ability to walk, putting his political career on hold.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })A few years later, Roosevelt has been hiding out in Florida when he is invited to a resort in rural Georgia, managed by Tom Loyless (Tim Blake Nelson) where the waters are said to help paralyzed people walk. The movie details Roosevelt's time spent Warm Springs, his purchase and transforming it into a polio rehabilitation center, to his own personal transformation into understanding the suffering many people like him endured, and ends at the 1928 Democratic National Convention where he would give his nomination to Al Smith, and resume his political career.It was critically acclaimed and was nominated for sixteen Emmys, winning five and a Director's Guild of America award for Joseph Sargent.Compare Sunrise at Campobello, a somewhat more historically accurate portrayal of this period in FDR's life.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })
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 Artistic License – History: Closer to Very Loosely Based on a True Story, actually. FDR never went on an Achilles in His Tent withdrawal from public life as the movie suggests; in Real Life he was thinking the whole time about how he might continue to advance his career despite being crippled by polio. The therapist character played by Kathy Bates suggest that Roosevelt's fake hip-swinging walk isn't a substitute for "the real work"; in fact that was as good as it got for FDR, who remained paralyzed until his death. And his triumphant return to public life, the nominating speech for Al Smith at the 1924 Democratic Convention, took place before he first visited Warm Springs, Georgia.
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 Deliberate Values Dissonance: The treatment of the handicapped can disgust the modern viewer. A good example is when Roosevelt learns that a teenager crippled by polio was locked up in a baggage car with no food. In our time, the railroad would have sued since laws now require that public places accommodate people with disabilities. Even Franklin's mother called the inn a leper colony. The film argues that Franklin's disgust at the treatment of handicapped individuals turned him into man that would fight human suffering as president.
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