Disney’s attempt to make a movie about one of its greatest classics seems a bit skeptical. However, Saving Mr. Banks was an emotionally compelling film about P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins’s journey to the big screen.

P.L. Travers had no intentions of handing over the movie rights to Disney, who she feared would turn her most prized possession into a typical Hollywood film, a nightmare to Travers. However, her books stopped selling and she was desperate for money, so she reluctantly made her way to Los Angeles to hear what Disney had to offer.

Tom Hanks, who played Walt Disney, put on a great performance, capturing the exuberant and optimistic salesman persona of Walt Disney. Emma Thompson, who plays P.L. Travers, author of Mary Poppins, does a fantastic job in her role as well, depicting a humorless and sour British woman. Hanks and Thompson do a good job at developing a gradual change in relationship towards the end of the movie when they begin to dig deeper into their similar childhoods.

Not only does the movie have a great humor aspect to it, thanks to the rest of the cast, but it is also a very emotionally captivating film. Travers is hesitant to hand over the rights to her novel because of her connection to the character Mary Poppins, which we see in the numerous, perhaps too numerous, flashbacks to her childhood, which presents a gloomy side.

Overall, Saving Mr. Banks proved to be a fascinating movie for all ages and it is worth seeing.