Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
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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… More 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.
- Directed By
- John Lee Hancock
- Written By
- Kelly Marcel, Sue Smith
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Dec 20, 2013 Wide
- Studio
- Walt Disney Pictures
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Cast
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Emma Thompson
as P.L. Travers
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Tom Hanks
as Walt Disney
- Colin Farrell
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Bradley Whitford
as Don DaGradi
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Paul Giamatti
as Ralph
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Jason Schwartzman
as Richard Morton Sherman
- Ruth Wilson
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B.J. Novak
as Robert Sherman
- Rachel Griffiths
