.......starring Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Colin Farrell and Paul Giammati with a strong ensemble cast.
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It's the story of why the novel "Mary Poppins" was written and how Walt Disney and his studio persevered (for almost twenty years) to make the movie version.
If you appreciated "My Week with Marilyn" or "Hitchcock," I believe you'd probably like this flick about movie making also.
Good acting and what I thought was a great script (which skillfully balanced and simultaneously melded two storylines) are what I'll remember about this film.
And Emma Thompson, with perhaps the crowning achievement in her acting career, is truly radiant here portraying very prickly, kind of peculiar and decidedly particular authoress P. L. Travers and along with this film's screenwriters, Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith, should (IMO) be an Oscar nominee.
And maybe others like Hanks, Farrell, Giammatti or director John Lee Hancock too.
BTW, Tom Hanks, the actor, has compiled quite a good record of saving people and/or being saved: Private Ryan, Meg Ryan (because Tom's movie son was sleepless in Seattle, did I remember that right?), embattled Captain Phillips, that hopelessly cast away dude, a splashy mermaid, an endearing retard who ends up a success and raising his son, then (against pretty grim and heavy odds) Apollo 13 and now this Mr. Banks guy.
To my recall, he's only fallen short in his quest as a Da Vinci codebreaker and sadly to AIDS in "Philadelphia."
And, of course, he couldn't save women's baseball when the real players came back after the war, but he way out hit his batting average by ending up with Julia Roberts in "Larry Crowne."
That's a pretty good rescue record; he's a modern day Jimmy Stewart.
Here he portrays his distant cousin, Walt Disney.
My sweet wife and I really enjoyed this well-made, poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes dark film and highly recommend it to the right viewers.
Stay while the credits roll for some extra stuff.
Your thoughts?
The Link
It's the story of why the novel "Mary Poppins" was written and how Walt Disney and his studio persevered (for almost twenty years) to make the movie version.
If you appreciated "My Week with Marilyn" or "Hitchcock," I believe you'd probably like this flick about movie making also.
Good acting and what I thought was a great script (which skillfully balanced and simultaneously melded two storylines) are what I'll remember about this film.
And Emma Thompson, with perhaps the crowning achievement in her acting career, is truly radiant here portraying very prickly, kind of peculiar and decidedly particular authoress P. L. Travers and along with this film's screenwriters, Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith, should (IMO) be an Oscar nominee.
And maybe others like Hanks, Farrell, Giammatti or director John Lee Hancock too.
BTW, Tom Hanks, the actor, has compiled quite a good record of saving people and/or being saved: Private Ryan, Meg Ryan (because Tom's movie son was sleepless in Seattle, did I remember that right?), embattled Captain Phillips, that hopelessly cast away dude, a splashy mermaid, an endearing retard who ends up a success and raising his son, then (against pretty grim and heavy odds) Apollo 13 and now this Mr. Banks guy.
To my recall, he's only fallen short in his quest as a Da Vinci codebreaker and sadly to AIDS in "Philadelphia."
And, of course, he couldn't save women's baseball when the real players came back after the war, but he way out hit his batting average by ending up with Julia Roberts in "Larry Crowne."
That's a pretty good rescue record; he's a modern day Jimmy Stewart.
Here he portrays his distant cousin, Walt Disney.
My sweet wife and I really enjoyed this well-made, poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes dark film and highly recommend it to the right viewers.
Stay while the credits roll for some extra stuff.
Your thoughts?
