It’s never easy to write about writers writing about a movie as iconic as Mary Poppins, but in some odd and charming way Saving Mr. Banks accomplished that. In a day an age where Hollywood producers are vying for the vision and the writer’s are losing it, this film is not only a look back at the wheeling and dealing of getting projects off the ground and Hollywood tycoons like Disney convincing P.L. Travers to sell the rights to the book, it is also a look at how much we hold on to the past and how that may prevent us with moving on with our lives.

That kinds of sentimentality works for any kind of audience because of their attachment to family. Okay not necessarily selling the rights to their book (because that’s enough stress as it is), but the kind of sentimentality that tells us that there is more to a person than what we read in the papers (again I speak in terms of times before the age of social media). Hit the jump for the full review. [Read more...]