2013 · comedy · drama · history
Saving Mr. Banks
Directed by John Lee Hancock2h 6m2013
Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
Our read: Saving Mr. Banks (2013) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · history entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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