Director John Lee Hancock
Staring Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley
Rated PG
Score 6/6

Author P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.

I can’t help but think that I might have missed out on something by forgetting to spend the time to watch this one at the local cinema, it’s not that it needed a cinema screen for the special effects it was more missing out on a possible shared emotional experience that you sometimes get when you go to the cinema. This might not have been an accurate depiction of the events around the adaption of Mary Poppins into a screenplay but I suppose it’s okay to sacrifice some of the truth if the resulting movie is something like Saving Mr Banks. Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks where brilliant together, I loved the scene with P.L. Travers and Walt Disney on the merry-go-round.
Collin Farrell gave a brilliant performance possibly one of the best performances that I have seen him give, he played a man who you would want to be around and seemed to be a wonderful father, yet he seemed to have an almost tragic existence.
There was at least one familiar Aussie acting face in Rachel Griffiths. There where possibly a few other Australian actors cast in this movie including Andy McPhee who I found myself mistaking for Brian Brown.