Superb Acting in a Debatable Hollywood Story

Rating: 7/10 (28 December 2013)

First, and many people never learn this,virtually everything produced by Hollywood,based on fact, eventually becomes fiction due to rewrite after rewrite. That's why there's controversy over the validity of the story.
Saying this, Saving Mr.Banks is a great way to see two moving performances, that of Emma Thompson and Colin Farrell. Thompson's portrayal of P.J. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins, is wonderful, and I'm speaking as an American married to just such a proper English woman,who in travers case was actually Australian.
And Farrell as her father once again show his enormous range as an actor in an underplayed sensitive role.
Quite honestly, at first notice you might not even care about the story of Mary Poppins being made into a film. But once involved in the movie, you can't help liking it.
The only thing I found missing script-wise was a bridging scene on how PJ came to live in London after a childhood in the Outback.