Paul Giamatti assumes the life and soul of a character.

Rating: 10/10 (27 December 2013)

The jewel in Disney's "Saving Mr. Banks" is Paul Giamatti in the quiet, efficient role of Mrs. Travers' limousine driver. You may not put face to name at first but you know you are watching a premier actor assume the life and soul of his character. Emma Thompson and Tom Hank are a delight playing off each other in this half real and half fiction approach to story telling of the making of "Mary Poppins" in the 1960s. As a movie experience, the film holds your attention even though it offers little insight to what really happened in the wonderful world of make believe. The story weaves in and out of the of the minds of the great children story writer, P.T. Travers, and the indomitable Mr. Disney.