So it's not the whole truth, but who cares

Rating: 9/10 (19 January 2014)

There's one flow in the logic of this masterful film that makes you realize you don't see the whole truth of the story behind the struggle between P.L.Travers, and Walt Disney over the rights for Mary Poppins. I mean there're so many things she opposed with passion, and we still know the film was almost exactly as first presented to P.L.Travers, something more should have happened for her not only to give the rights for the story to Disney the way it was finally made. Thing is, I just saw the film, I realized this flaw was in the script and I still didn't care. It was all made so superbly that even the tear-jerker minutes abundant in this movie are forgiven. Emma Thompson is simply superb, as the bitter angry woman, forced to sell her only bankable treasure. As it was already mentioned in one of the previous reviews here, making this bitter misanthropic character likable, is a task only one of the very best could master. Tom Hanks, is as superb as her, I still remember Walt Disney presenting his TV hour, only problem is I'm not sure if I remember him doing it or Tom Hanks, with very little apparent makeup, Hanks simply is Disney, at least the way that Disney's company want us to remember him, but as Hanks plays him - that's the way we also want to remember him. The rest of the cast is as stellar as the two leads - not a single false note in the symphony. The story flows superbly cutting between P.L. Travers memories of her childhood, her lonely life at the time of the main story, and the Disney studio glimpses of the would be film offered to the unrelenting author. Most of the jokes are very gentle ones almost Britishly understated, and it works for the film.
Bottom line, it may not be exact history, but it's definitely a good story told as engagingly as possible in my book, and I liked it for this very reason.