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Saving Mr.Banks Meets Mary Poppins - It's 1964 Again! FREE Interactive Book

'Perhaps the best family movie in 50 years - since, well, 1964 and Mary Poppins!
***** (Oldies Country)

Seen the movie yet - Saving Mr.Banks? Don't miss it... the story of the making of Mary Poppins, takes you back to 1964 with Tom Hanks as Walt Disney and Emma Thompson as the 'difficult' author that Disney/Hanks must convince to allow them to use her book for the screenplay. Great scenes, music, acting. May be trite, old Disney for some , who will call it 'schmaltzy' or corny but we say a movie that captures the feeling of THE ERA perhaps as well as anything since. The only negative for us is having the movie end and walking back outside into a world that is no longer anything like 1964 - devoid of the hope and spirit of the Kennedy Era (even though Mary Poppins actually came out months after the Assasination). But a couple hours of escapism like this is a rare treat.

Enjoy the FREE Interactive , multi-media book by clicking, above (you will need Itunes, which is downloadable, also above, if you don't have it).Enjoy! Here's a trailer for the movie...

Scene from the original movie,Mary Poppins with Julie Andrews, pictured here, 1964. In the new movie, attempting to win over the writer PJ Traverse character, Walt Disney ( Tom Hnaks) takes Traverse to Disneyland ('the happiest place on Earth') , where -knowing that she loves carousels - gets her onto a merry-go-round despite her initial protestations.

The Story Behind the Music - Saving Mr. Banks Soundtrack

Disney legend RICHARD SHERMAN discusses working with Walt Disney on the movie Mary Poppins, in 1964 , along with others

SAVING MR. BANKS STORE

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SCENE from the new movie, Saving Mr Banks, where Tom Hanks, playing Walt Disney, tries to charm the book's 'difficult' author, PJ Traverse into allowing them to make the movie, Mary Poppins, in 1964.

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MARY POPPINS and ME

A mother today discusses her conflicting feelings about bringing her young son to the new movie, Saving Mr Banks. No sex or vioilence but plenty of emotions, which she's concerned may play heavy on the boy's future (from Huffington Post article)....

I misjudged. He is so grown up, so accustomed to adult conversation, having two college-aged sisters. He is an old 9, so I thought he would be okay at Saving Mr. Banks. It was PG-13 but I hadn't read the reviews closely. I loved Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks. We'd all go -- a Christmas night outing.
The movie splices Travers' experience in negotiating the making of the film Mary Poppins in Hollywood with her childhood in Australia. In the golden-glowed flashbacks, young Mrs. Travers is called Helen. When Helen's alcohol-dependent father coughs blood into his handkerchief and falls off a platform at the fair, our son pulls my hand. "I need to leave," he whispers urgently. "Now," he insists more

(Editor's note: Nice to see a mother today so concerned about her son's feelings - and this is about a family movie)

editor's note... WE'RE NOT DONE YET... COME BACK

SOON FOR MORE on the wonderful 'Mr.Banks' Movie

and story behind it

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