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Eleanor and Franklin Double Feature (The Early Years / The White House Years) | 
| Director: Daniel Petrie
Actors: Jane Alexander, Edward Herrmann, Priscilla Pointer, Walter Mcginn, Rosemary Murphy
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 5599
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 360 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: HBOD99089D
UPC: 026359908927
EAN: 0026359908927
ASIN: B000ND91S6
Theatrical Release Date: March 13, 1977
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 05/01/2007 Rating: Nr
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 History Buffs June 23, 2009
JAMES R. TAYLOR (Albuquerque, NM USA)
Have seen other films I enjoy more but this one was okay. Little hard to stay with at times.
 ANTI-FDR BIAS June 11, 2009
Professor Emeritus P. Bagnolo (DOWNTOWN NYC/Chic. NM USA)
THE 18 EMMY AWARDS NOTWITHSTANDING, they apparently knew far less about FDR when HBO made this Made for TV movie OR INTENTIONALLY MADE A BIASED FILM.Eleanor and Franklin Double Feature (The Early Years / The White House Years)
The movie was well acted however, the writing and direction displayed either a strong ant-FDR bias or ignorance of the reality of the relationship between the couple. After their sixth Child, Eleanor told Franklin in no uncertain terms, that she was DONE with sex and she moved to a separate bedroom. She also informed her daughter, (who thereafter felt sorry for her dad) that sexual intercourse was a thing to be merely endured. However, when the frustrated FDR took a mistress ( Lucy Mercer) Eleanor supported by Sarah, FDR's mother forced him to give up her up or be disinherited. While this resulted in the greatest president in our history, it was at his great personal expense.
Nor did FDR in real life, express the short-tempered anger toward Eleanor which the movie displayed, even though Eleanor constantly badgered him for her pet projects (though sometimes those projects represented good causes) even though he was stressed out with the war and the depression.
Roosevelt was exceptionally tolerant for the woman who bore him six children and cared for him in his decades of paralysis and struggles ad FDR was ever the jolly host, though on rare occasion they did spat, he showed her exceptional patience even building a cottage for her and her female friend on his estate.
I suggest instead of buying this pair of DVD's, one read the two books, FDR, by Jean Edward Smith and Traitor to His Class, by HW Brands. Within those 1900 pages is the true story of their life together. One might add, FDR and Lucy: Lovers and Friends, by Resa Willis. For a more accurate film on his earlier years one might try the film SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO.
 Makes history enjoyable March 27, 2009
S. McBrayer
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I saw this back in the 70's on PBS and thought it was excellent. I wanted to add it to my growing home collection.
The best DVD for its price in all of Amazon.com February 10, 2009
1 WOLF CITY PLAZA (Baltimore, Maryland USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This story of Eleanor and FDR is simply a masterpeice in every way. The quality of the transfer is second to none. The story both written and told with so much sensitivity their love of history of the WW2 period shines through in every word. I remember the series when it first aired in the 1970's and I saw the price. I figured they butchered the movies or the transfer was aweful. I was wrong on both counts. The DVD transfer was beyond first rate.
The run time for The Early Years is 204 Minutes.
The run time for The White House Years is 156 Minutes.
While there is no way to pardon FDR's love affair with his peice of fluff on the side, I understood the man. FDR was wheelchair bound. This young beautiful secretary was interested in him back when he was a scrapping virile able bodied man full of energy and hormones. Nice as she was on the eyes, this scretary was no where near FDR's intellectual equal. FDR especially after his cotracting polio needed the rich intellectual stimulation only a lady of quality like Eleanor could give. FDR's love of Eleanor was sexual but it was vitally intellectual. Eleanor was FDR's safe harbor and unfortunately he took her role for granted.
The DVD shares all the raw emotions with you. If shares good points and bad. If offers insights into the country and world at these most trying of times. This is one of the best DVD I sets have ever seen at this level of quality. Generally everything HBO sells is overpriced but for the quality this DVD set is actually the best bargain I can remember going from HBO. This is not just history it is love story told by people who also love history and that blend is unbeatable!
History At Its Most Personal January 21, 2009
John D. Cofield
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This fine set contains two excellent mini-series which were first shown in the 1970s. Based on Joseph P. Lash's majestic dual biography, Eleanor and Franklin is a deeply moving portrayal of America's longest serving First Couple.
The Early Years is the better of the two series. It begins with FDR's death at Warm Springs in 1945 and portrays, in flashbacks through Eleanor's memories, their early lives. Franklin was a spoiled mama's boy, while Eleanor was a shy girl raised by her strict grandmother after her parents' early deaths. As distant cousins, Eleanor and Franklin met at family gatherings and knew each other only slightly until they reached adulthood. Their marriage was a love match and their early years happy until Franklin had an affair with Eleanor's secretary. The scenes depicting how the couple decided to stay together are highly poignant, as are the scenes showing Franklin falling ill with polio and at first giving way to depression, then with Eleanor's support becoming determined to resume an active life.
The second series depicts the Roosevelts during their White House years. By that time the couple had largely developed second lives, with FDR pinned down by work and paralysis and Eleanor constantly on the move overseeing New Deal projects and later the war effort. At times the second series seems a bit jumpy and rushed as it tries to pack 12 years, a depression, and a world war into a bit more than two hours. Nevertheless its an enjoyable and informative look at how the Roosevelts lived their lives, and the final scenes showing Eleanor confronting her old memories and hurts are very strong.
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