Saving Mr. Banks
In Movie Theaters: Friday, December 20, 2013
Director: John Lee Hancock
Cast:
Tom Hanks-Walt Disney
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers
Colin Farrell - Goff
Ruth Wilson -Margaret
Rachel Griffiths -Aunt Ellie
Annie Buckley -Young P.L. Travers
An enormous spoonful of sugar and the tiniest bit of medicine: it all goes down, just about. This is a warmly, in fact outrageously sentimental and self-congratulatory film from Disney about the master himself: the story of how in 1961 the wily genius Walt Disney – likably played by Tom Hanks – persuaded the grumpy British dame PL Travers to come to Los Angeles and begin talks to sign away the screen rights to her legendary creation, Mary Poppins. It was a project Walt had been working on for 20 years. The director is John Lee Hancock, who made the intensely patriotic football picture The Blind Side.
Gimlet of eye, pursed of lip, uptight of demeanour, Travers is terribly suspicious of Hollywood razzmatazz; she is played by Emma Thompson, a double Oscar-winner for writing and acting who is nonetheless best known to younger audiences now from the smash-hit Nanny McPhee films. Will starchy old Travers finally get thawed by Walt's rich warmth? Will she abandon her haughty resistance to his folksiness and schmaltz? And can this intensely American figure faithfully represent the quintessential Britishness of the Mary Poppins story?
In Movie Theaters: Friday, December 20, 2013
Director: John Lee Hancock
Cast:
Tom Hanks-Walt Disney
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers
Colin Farrell - Goff
Ruth Wilson -Margaret
Rachel Griffiths -Aunt Ellie
Annie Buckley -Young P.L. Travers
An enormous spoonful of sugar and the tiniest bit of medicine: it all goes down, just about. This is a warmly, in fact outrageously sentimental and self-congratulatory film from Disney about the master himself: the story of how in 1961 the wily genius Walt Disney – likably played by Tom Hanks – persuaded the grumpy British dame PL Travers to come to Los Angeles and begin talks to sign away the screen rights to her legendary creation, Mary Poppins. It was a project Walt had been working on for 20 years. The director is John Lee Hancock, who made the intensely patriotic football picture The Blind Side.
Gimlet of eye, pursed of lip, uptight of demeanour, Travers is terribly suspicious of Hollywood razzmatazz; she is played by Emma Thompson, a double Oscar-winner for writing and acting who is nonetheless best known to younger audiences now from the smash-hit Nanny McPhee films. Will starchy old Travers finally get thawed by Walt's rich warmth? Will she abandon her haughty resistance to his folksiness and schmaltz? And can this intensely American figure faithfully represent the quintessential Britishness of the Mary Poppins story?
