Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
Country: GB/AUS/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 125m
Director: John Lee Hancock
Cast: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Paul Giamatti, Annie Rose Buckley, Colin Farrell, Ruth Wilson
Synopsis:
The authoress of Mary Poppins is finally prevailed upon to journey to Hollywood and meet with Walt Disney and his creative team about transferring her precious creation to the screen. However, her intractable behaviour has as much to do with guilt over what transpired within her family home during a childhood spent in Western Australia, as with her adopted English 'uptightness'.
Review:
Emma Thompson is of course a shoo-in to play the curmudgeonly and pedantic P. L. Travers, and to make her transformation into the foot-tapping, singing and weeping human being we end up with convincing; but Hanks is equally engaging as the avuncular Walt, and with less material to go on. This is a delectable actors' piece alright, and with an impeccably recreated Hollywood and attractive antipodean flashbacks which can, on the other hand, grow intrusive. A complex and moving study in artistic inspiration, catharsis, and art's role as therapist to the public at large.
Country: GB/AUS/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 125m
Director: John Lee Hancock
Cast: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Paul Giamatti, Annie Rose Buckley, Colin Farrell, Ruth Wilson
Synopsis:
The authoress of Mary Poppins is finally prevailed upon to journey to Hollywood and meet with Walt Disney and his creative team about transferring her precious creation to the screen. However, her intractable behaviour has as much to do with guilt over what transpired within her family home during a childhood spent in Western Australia, as with her adopted English 'uptightness'.
Review:
Emma Thompson is of course a shoo-in to play the curmudgeonly and pedantic P. L. Travers, and to make her transformation into the foot-tapping, singing and weeping human being we end up with convincing; but Hanks is equally engaging as the avuncular Walt, and with less material to go on. This is a delectable actors' piece alright, and with an impeccably recreated Hollywood and attractive antipodean flashbacks which can, on the other hand, grow intrusive. A complex and moving study in artistic inspiration, catharsis, and art's role as therapist to the public at large.
Country: GB/AUS/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 125m
Director: John Lee Hancock
Cast: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Paul Giamatti, Annie Rose Buckley, Colin Farrell, Ruth Wilson
Synopsis:
The authoress of Mary Poppins is finally prevailed upon to journey to Hollywood and meet with Walt Disney and his creative team about transferring her precious creation to the screen. However, her intractable behaviour has as much to do with guilt over what transpired within her family home during a childhood spent in Western Australia, as with her adopted English 'uptightness'.
Review:
Emma Thompson is of course a shoo-in to play the curmudgeonly and pedantic P. L. Travers, and to make her transformation into the foot-tapping, singing and weeping human being we end up with convincing; but Hanks is equally engaging as the avuncular Walt, and with less material to go on. This is a delectable actors' piece alright, and with an impeccably recreated Hollywood and attractive antipodean flashbacks which can, on the other hand, grow intrusive. A complex and moving study in artistic inspiration, catharsis, and art's role as therapist to the public at large.