Plot: The story of the making of the 1964 Mary Poppins movie sounds dull, but it actually is great. Mrs Travers (Emma Thompson), the author of Mary Poppins, is reluctant to sell film rights to Walt Disney (Tom Hanks). She goes to Los Angeles to work on the script, but objects to nearly everything. Mrs Travers is very opinionated and hard to work with because she sees the characters as personifications of people from her sad childhood. Eventually Walt understands and adapts the script and finally she trusts him to make it -- that is not a spoiler, because you knew that.[imdb] [photos]
In the middle of the movie, song writing is the highlight as they argue about the familiar songs from the film. I liked when Walt listens to "Tuppence for the Birds," in the night when everyone else was asleep. I also liked the toe-tapping scene when they sang "Go Fly a Kite."
Later the flashback scenes become more serious and the interplay between the present story and past story create sentiment and tearfulness.
Tom Hanks inhabited the character of Walt Disney so much that his overly familiar face did not distract me at all. He seemed just like the old Walt Disney that I had seen on TV. Hank's Disney persona might have been too nice, because I can't imagine the Disney studio saying one bad word about their founder -- except they did show him smoking.
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