Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
"Where her book ended, their story began."
Top Billed Cast
Emma Thompson
P.L. Travers
Tom Hanks
Walt Disney
Colin Farrell
Travers Robert Goff
Paul Giamatti
Ralph
Ruth Wilson
Margaret Goff
Jason Schwartzman
Richard Sherman
Bradley Whitford
Don DaGradi
Annie Rose Buckley
Ginty
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
A Andres GomezVerified TMDB Critic
2015-10-14
Nicely done movie with great performances from Thompson and Hanks. Also Farrell, which a role made perfectly for him.
The story is well threaded, letting us walk through Travers childhood and the birth of the main characters in Mary Poppins' books....
R r96skVerified TMDB Critic
2020-11-13
Utterly brilliant!
I haven't watched <em>'Mary Poppins'</em> itself in many, many years but still have memories of it as a kid. That meant I had the desired knowledge of the key parts about that film, which I'd say is probably wise to watch before this - though not a requirement, at least in my opinion.
Ironically, Travers' complaints about the animation segments to the 1964 film are justified on my end - I've been on a Disney marathon since May, but to "shorten" the watch load I decided to only watch the studio's productions that are straight up animation or straight up live-action, so ...
