I want to see it!

whom I highly regard. But generally I hate Disney after how they stole the Lion King. Kimba the White Lion was my childhood favorite. It's terrible they stole it outright.

... was Mary Poppins with my (now) aged mother. I would like to take her to see this movie.

I am grateful for the review

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I'm glad they really delved into good old Uncle Walt's cute little quirks.

PL Travers and her very personal issues stemming from her past as they pertain to her decisions around the adaptation of her authored story into a movie version. It is a GREAT film.

Yes, people, even famous people, are very complicated. Henry Ford was antisemitic and did business with the pre-WW2 Germans, but also did some great things in business and with his Ford Foundation. Jackson killed and relocated the Indians, but also was very populist. A real mixed bag. FDR interned the Japanese Americans, worked hand in glove with Stalin, and did the New Deal. And he is a great Democratic hero. JFK cut taxes for the rich and was a serial adulterer and sex hound, yet also did many great things as President. LBJ dropped the N-word all the time while signing civil rights legislation and starting Medicare and Medicaid, and he gave us the Vietnam War. Bill Clinton did many good things and some bad things both on policy and in his personal life. Few people in this world have entirely clean hands. Tell us, what "sins" have you committed in your life? Do they entirely define you?

I was unprepared (from the trailer) about how deep it would be. I left the theater really moved and thinking so much. I loved the message about the power of imagination and got a new view of Disney himself.

I want to see it once it is available online.

I cried too.

who really knows what happened. So sensitively portrayed as well.

I missed the first part, came in when she (the young girl) was getting onto the train, noticing that their stop was the end of the line...mind telling me what happened in the very beginning?

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Then she goes to LA, though reluctantly, is rude on the plane, rude to Paul Giomatti the car driver, and gets to her hotel room to find it full of flowers and stuffed Disney toys including a giant Mickey Mouse which you see again toward the end. She establishes her character well in the early scenes, and there is a lot of humor with her bluntness and rudeness.

The flashbacks of her childhood are the most moving parts of the movie.

and meeting the driver, etc. Just wondered why they were going on the train so far away.......

The reviewers sure hate this movie, but I found it so moving and thought provoking.