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Rating: 9/10 (24 August 2014)

Saving Mr. Banks This is not the movie I was expecting. I was expecting it to focus on Walt Disney, with touches of the story about the making of Mary Poppins, but instead it focused on the author P.L Travers (Emma Thompson).
Saving Mr. Banks focuses on P.L Travers (Emma Thompson) childhood in Australia and her difficulty in allowing Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) and his creative team to bring the movie to the big screen. In the start of the movie P.L Travers (Emma Thompson) is opposed to everything, you can feel the disdain she had for Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) and the types of films he made.
I was intrigued during the movie at Walt Disney's tenacious pursuit in making this movie and to what lengths he would go in order to win over the crusty P.L Travers. I get the feeling from this movie that he was a fan of her as an author but as a human being he was disappointed. You can see how he struggled with her demands, her inflexibility and the general manner in which she conducted herself.
A nice touch to this movie is Ralph (Paul Giamatti), he seems to be the only one in the end who ends up not only respecting her, but earning her respect as well. The good nature of this character and fact that his frustration with her, people skills or lack thereof is not going to change his attitude towards her or is job.
As you follow the story you start to understand how she has been let down by her father (Colin Farrell), who Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) reminds her of with his whimsy and playful nature. You get the feeling that the character needs saving and expect as the movie goes long that eventually she will be saved, but this is not the case.
Midway through when the creative team sings 'Let's go Fly a Kite', you do get the sense that P.L Travers (Emma Thompson) is beginning to change emotionally and become more understanding of the people around her. However by the end of the movie, you will see that the character has not been redeemed, which is a departure from the normal story arc's you would see in a movie of this type.
The cast has done an excellent job to bring this movie to life and I believe that without Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson and Paul Giamatti, this movie would not have had the impact that it did. These exceptional actors showed the diversity not only on the big screen but in real life.
I would recommend this movie to all who wish to see it and rate it a strong 9/10.