Hyde Park on the Hudson

Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)

Margaret Suckley (Laura Linney) – more commonly known as Daisy – recollects her relationship with her more famous distant cousin, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Her recollections focus primarily on the year they were reacquainted as adults, 1939. With Daisy living in Hyde Park, New York, that reacquaintance was when Roosevelt more often visited Hyde Park to stay at his mother’s house there, Mrs. Roosevelt who was looking for people to keep her son company to take his mind off politics.

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The Secret of World of Arrietty

The Secret World of Arrietty (2012)

In Tokyo, 12-year-old Sho (aka Shawn) has a heart condition and is neglected by his parents. He moves to the house of his Aunt Sadako (aka Aunt Jessica) and her housemaid Haru (aka Hara) to wait for a heart surgery, but he is depressed with the absence of his mother. Meanwhile 14-year-old teenager Arrietty lives on the underground of Sadako/Jessica’s house with her father Pod and her hysterical mother Homily.

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