Quite Remarkable

Rating: 8/10 (3 March 2014)

Author P. L. Travers (Emma Thompson) reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney (Tom Hanks), who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
There were things about this film that I thought were a bit much. Mostly, the attempt to connect Travers' childhood with her later writing and such. There is no doubt that she took her name from her father, but I am not at all convinced that he inspired her as much as the film suggests. As near as I can tell, she was only 5 years old when he died and probably had few or no memories of the man.
That being said, I thought the performances were good and really brought be back to what it may have been like to work with Walt Disney in the 1960s. At first I was not convinced that Tom Hanks could be Disney, but I soon warmed up to it. In fact, I think he was better at Disney than he was for the role of Captain Phillips.