Saving Mr. Banks (2013) is a biographical drama film that takes us behind the scenes of the iconic 1964 Disney production Mary Poppins and tells us the story of how the movie was developed and the ...

P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson)—the irascible author of Mary Poppins—frets and complains bitterly throughout Saving Mr. Banks that her beloved story will lose its realistic edge in the hands of Walt ...

Mary Poppins meant nothing to me as a child. I’d never read the book and didn’t love the movie. I That hope for the film isn’t misplaced, because Thompson is its bracing spine, her Travers as tightly ...

Hanks and Disney aren’t the film’s center, though. Instead, it’s focused on P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson), the author of the books on which “Mary Poppins” was based. As the film begins, Disney, whose ...

Ian Collie is an Australian producer whose TV documentary, The Shadow of Mary Poppins , was the inspiration for the feature Saving Mr. Banks, starring Emma Thompson as author PL Travers and Tom Hanks ...