Saving Mr. Banks

Saving Mr. Banks wraps a seduction inside a seduction with enjoyable results. It's a Disney film in every sense of the term.
-- Joe Morgenstern, Wall St. Journal

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Saving Mr. Banks

When Walt Disney's daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers' "Mary Poppins," he made them a promise, one that he didn't realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney's plans for the adaptation. For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn't budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp. It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing films in cinematic history.

A Golden Globe nominee for Best Actress.
PG-13
Genre
Bio-pic, Comedy, Drama
Runtime
125
Language
English
Director
Lee Han
Cast
Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Ruth Wilson, Paul Giamatti, Jasn Schwartzman, Bradley Whitford, BJ Novak
FEATURED REVIEW
Scott Foundas, Variety

Somewhere, Uncle Walt is smiling. The Mouse House impresario’s protracted courtship of novelist P.L. Travers to secure the film rights to her “Mary Poppins” has all the makings of an irresistible backstage tale, and it’s been brought to the screen with a surplus of old-fashioned Disney showmanship ...

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