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Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
125 min - Biography | Comedy | Drama - 20 December 2013 (USA)
IMDB rating: 7.8

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1322269/

Author P. L. Travers reflects on her difficult childhood while meeting with filmmaker Walt Disneyduring production for the adaptation of her novel, Mary Poppins.

Director: John Lee Hancock
Writers: Kelly Marcel, Sue Smith

cast:Emma Thompson ... P.L. Travers
Tom Hanks ... Walt Disney
Annie Rose Buckley ... Ginty
Colin Farrell ... Travers Goff
Ruth Wilson ... Margaret Goff
Paul Giamatti ... Ralph
Bradley Whitford ... Don DaGradi
B.J. Novak ... Robert Sherman
Jason Schwartzman ... Richard Sherman
Lily Bigham ... Biddy

Release.Date: 27.05.2014
Video: X264 @ crf 19
Frame.Rate: 23.976
Resolution: 720x300
Audio: AAC LC 2ch 48.0 KHz
Language: English
Length: 2h 5mn
Source: Retail BluRay
Size: 1.204gb
Subtitles: English

my review:9/10
Saving Mr Banks tells the story of Walt Disney's battle to get the rights to make Mary Poppins into a movie. I wasn't expecting to like this but was completely blown away.

It is beautifully put together, is hilarious in parts and very touching and emotional at other stages, but is not overly sappy or cheesy.

There are some outstanding performances here. Emma Thompson plays Mrs Travers beautifully - a cantankerous and stubborn lady, yet you can't dislike her. Tom Hanks does a good job of playing Walt Disney - a tough role for anyone but he seems to suit it, so long as you can get past the terrible fake southern accent which is worse than Dick Van Dyke's attempts at an English accent in Mary Poppins.

However the stand-out performance is, surprisingly, delivered by Colin Farrell as Mrs Travers' father. He brings amazing range and emotion to a character that is simultaneously a loving, sweet father and a man caged in by life and personal demons.