Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson as Walt Disney and P.L.Travers in “Saving Mr. Banks.” Curt. Haughty. Dyspeptic. Snooty. Churlish. Also articulate. I jotted down lots of one-word descriptions of Emma ...

P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson)—the irascible author of Mary Poppins—frets and complains bitterly throughout Saving Mr. Banks that her beloved story will lose its realistic edge in the hands of Walt ...

“Saving Mr. Banks” tells the story of the making of 1964's “Mary Poppins,” one of Walt Disney's most well-known, and profitable, films. The struggle by Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) to gain the rights for P ...

LOS ANGELES - Jason Schwartzman didn't realize until he was cast as songwriter Richard M. Sherman in "Saving Mr. Banks" how familiar he was with his work. "If you had asked me a week before being cast ...

I recently watched the Oscar-nominated film “Saving Mr. Banks,” which was about the making of the Disney movie “Mary Poppins.” I also watched the 40th anniversary edition of “Mary Poppins,” which my ...

From "Sunset Boulevard" to "Barton Fink," we've often had the writer's perspective on the painful life of movie scripting. Now, in Disney's "Saving Mr. Banks," we have the studio's. The movie is based ...