What is it about this movie so many of us love so much? At first blush, it sounds boring as all get out. Disney woos a recalcitrant author of children’s books who reminds us of J. M. Barrie for film rights to her book. Now, it’s a sad person who doesn’t like Mary Poppins, but this back story to film rights? Who cares, right? It turns out a lot of us do. While it may not match the reality of a more complex and less happy story, the movie version is a story of freeing redemption. Mrs. Travers (neither the honorific nor the name are fully real) is released from the past, Mr. Banks is redeemed and, thus, Mrs. Travers’s love for her father. So it’s a great story with universal themes. What truly makes this a fabulous movie is the execution – it is told well. The cast is…
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