Took my wife to see it this evening and thought it was both good and very interesting. I had no idea it was truely about the writers Father and the woman that comes to help out when he was having "problems" (don't want to spoil it). I thought it was purely a fictional story. That Walt Disney took 20 years to wear her down and convince her to allow Disney to make the movie shows one hell of a sense of determination. It's a bit slow at times, but overall a good movie. Emma Thompson is outstanding! Academy Award nomination to be sure.

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As ES said, this is an exceptional movie although I was moved a little more than he was. I thought this was a fantastic film even if it did take some liberties with Travers 'coming around' to some of the changes Disney made to her film. I don't know if the last scene really happened, nor do I think it could have. But, for her own story arc, I thought it was very well done. The mash up of some of the musical numbers to some of what she was going through was a nice touch, and I like that it was both a celebration of the film as much as it was an eye opening story about Travers' personal life.

The performance by Emma Thompson was pitch perfect and she may just win the Best Actress award since Bullock's lost some steam in the past few months. I liked Hanks a lot too as Disney. But I also want to throw a compliment to Colin Farrell who gets no press for this film but turns in a very earnest performance as Travers' confounding father.

It treads the line of total predictability but doesn't go too far with a tearjerker agenda and that's what I liked most. It's touching, and even heartbreaking, but its poignancy is never compromised by cornball sentimentality.

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somehow my wife got me to see this movie.
I didn't know anything about it.
Was not expecting emotional turmoil.
Last time I go see movie with wife.
By the end I thought Hanks actually WAS Walt Disney.

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Walt hated people of different origins as well

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

per wikipedia

In 2006 Disney biographer Neal Gabler, the first writer to gain unrestricted access to the Disney archives, concluded that available evidence did not support accusations of antisemitism. In a CBS interview Gabler summarized his findings:

“ That's one of the questions everybody asks me... My answer to that is, not in the conventional sense that we think of someone as being an antisemite. But he got the reputation because, in the 1940s, he got himself allied with a group called the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, which was an anti-Communist and antisemitic organization. And though Walt himself, in my estimation, was not antisemitic, nevertheless, he willingly allied himself with people who were antisemitic, and that reputation stuck. He was never really able to expunge it throughout his life.[123] ”

Disney eventually distanced himself from the Motion Picture Alliance in the 1950s.[124] Gabler wrote that three months after Riefenstahl's visit, Disney disavowed it, claiming that he did not know who she was when he issued the invitation.[125] Gabler also questioned Babbitt's story, on grounds that Disney had no time for political meetings and was "very apolitical" during the 1930s.[120]

The Walt Disney Family Museum acknowledges that Disney did have "difficult relationships" with some Jewish individuals, including Babbitt and David Hilberman; and that ethnic stereotypes common to films of the 1930s were included in some early cartoons, such as Three Little Pigs (in which the Big Bad Wolf comes to the door dressed as a Jewish peddler) and The Opry House (in which Mickey Mouse is dressed and dances as a Hasidic Jew); but both Gabler and the museum have pointed out that he befriended many Jewish schoolmates, donated to several Jewish charities (The Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Yeshiva College, Jewish Home for the Aged, and The American League for a Free Palestine), and was named "1955 Man of the Year" by the B'nai B'rith chapter in Beverly Hills.[121][126] According to Gabler, none of Disney's employees — including Babbitt, who disliked Disney intensely — ever accused him of making antisemitic slurs or taunts.[122]

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