Walt Disney tries to convince the writer of Mary Poppins to approve a movie adaptation.

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Short of money, the snobbish, uptight P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) is forced to finally face the proposition Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) has offered for years: to sell the rights to her famous book Mary Poppins for a big screen adaptation. So the arrogant old girl goes to Hollywood for the pre-production. Impolite with her American colleagues and not at home in the sunny town where everyone calls her by her first name with a broad smile, Mrs. Travers quickly gets on the wrong side of Disney’s chirpy personnel. Hidden away in her hotel room in the evenings, she thinks back on her childhood in Australia and her adored father...

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