“Saving Mr. Banks,” December 20 2014 (2013), DVD. Emma Thompson shines as PL Travers, the author of the Mary Poppins series, in this Disney production about the making of Disney’s “Mary Poppins” film. Walt Disney, played by Tom Hanks as a jovial and crafty artist/father/boss/capitalist, had wanted the books since 1938 when his daughters introduced them to him, and Travers had rejected his suit for over 20 years. The film chronicles his wooing of this very damaged and difficult woman and his coming to understand why she was the woman she was. It’s an interesting psychological story and can hook you into father/daughter issues big issues big time. It is also very ‘60s in color and language, and very Hollywood, the thing Travers hated, in its own right. In that sense, there are always pieces that feel false even when it may be ‘based on a true story’. They had almost 40 hours of tape of the sessions Travers worked with the script and music writers, and Thompson apparently listened to all of them. Don’t expect the Walt Disney of anti-unionism and anti-communism to make an appearance here. By the way, I think Travers was right to want a British voice in the sweep’s role played by Dick Van Dyke.