Saving Mr. Banks

A fight over movie/book rights can be a bitter pill to swallow. Artists and authors love their works and no one wants to hand their dream over to someone who might turn that dream into a nightmare. Saving Mr. Banks shows how Walt Disney discovered just how much sugar it takes to make some people swallow a bitter pill.

Walt Disney has bargained, bartered, and begged for the rights to adapt the children's classic Mary Poppins into a film for twenty long years. Now in 1964 he has finally convinces P. L. Travers to come to Los Angeles  to sit down and discus her demands for how the movie is made. Unfortunately her many demands include no animation, no made up words, a clean shaven father, and ...none of the color red? Yeah, to make this happen Disney will need all of his magical fairy dust...

Its very rare that a movie that is in the running for the best picture Oscar and is geared to the fans of adult drama is even close to suitable for children. Hollywood loves making movies about themselves but many times the rest of us could hardly care. Surprisingly, Saving Mr. Banks isn't just a movie everyone can see, its a movie everyone should see.