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Rating: 10/10 (7 September 2014)

The Oscar winning song Chim-Chim-Charee, a spoonful of sugar and all that may have very well not come to be had the Emma Thompson character, the person who wrote Mary Poppins, had gotten her way.
We have an excellent picture here of what might have not occurred. Emma Thompson gave a fabulous performance as the cantankerous, afraid of facing life author. Amazing that she was denied an Oscar nomination and I suspect that her petition signing regarding Israel had something to do with it. If that be the case, congratulations to the academy for denying it to her.
The author of Mary Poppins had a difficult childhood as we observe. She saw Mary in a far different way than screen viewers eventually saw her. Tom Hanks portrayed Walt Disney in the film and he had quite a time of convincing her what Mary represented.
As the alcoholic father, Colin Farrell did a great job as did Paul Giamatti, the LA chauffeur who convinces the Thompson character that life is indeed worth living.