Top notch directing

Rating: 8/10 (19 April 2016)

I place user comments on a lot of movies. The trouble with most of them can be traced to the director. They can take a good script and totally screw it up, or they can draw the best out of it and get it onto the screen. Saving Mr. Banks is a script that could have been managed poorly and this movie wouldn't be what it has become.
Direction by John Lee Hancock in this movie was wonderful. All throughout the movie I marveled at the wisdom and surprisingly wise scene changes.
Of course the acting was first rate. How can you go wrong with Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson. Great actors like these can even push a movie along in spite of a poor director. But that wasn't the case here. The combination of direction and acting blended well throughout.