Sunday 22 March 2020

Saving Mr Banks (2013 John Lee Hancock)

Yes... we seem to be in the midst of a Tom Hanks retrospective... still haven't seen Saving Private Ryan...

Emma Thompson owns the film, of course... But when Hanks kicks in, it's solid fried gold.

"We can't make the film without the colour red." Written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith, with lots of back story running through, featuring Colin Farrell and Ruth Wilson (and Annie Rose Buckley).

And Giamatti.. A brilliant actor, under-used.

A most satisfactory entertainment, shot by John Schwartzman, edited by Mark Livolsi and scored by Thomas Newman.



Question, though - you would have thought the writers might have made some mention of how terrible Mrs. Banks would have definitely found Dick Van Dyke's accent.

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