Banks

Ben Banks is the Forrest Gump of the slacker generation. He's a young man without much drive or ambition, who stumbles into a series of strange and fascinating (mis)adventures. When he falls in love with a beautiful girl (Mischa Barton) with a mysterious past, he begins a journey that makes him discover being a grown-up isn't so bad after all.

Quando le sue figlie lo pregarono di realizzare un film tratto dal loro libro preferito “Mary Poppins”, dell’autrice P.L. Travers, Walt Disney fece loro una promessa, non immaginando che ci sarebbero voluti 20 anni per riuscire a mantenerla. Nella sua ricerca per ottenerne i diritti, infatti, Walt si trova ad affrontare…

When Walt Disney's daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins (1964), he made them a promise - one that he didn't realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney's plans for the adaptation. For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn't budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp. It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers …

Lorsque les filles de Walt Disney le supplient d adapter au cinéma leur livre préféré, Mary Poppins celui-ci leur fait une promesse… quil mettra vingt ans à tenir ! Dans sa quête pour obtenir les droits d adaptation du roman, Walt Disney va se heurter à auteure, Pamela Lyndon Travers, femme têtue et inflexible qui na aucunement intention de laisser son héroïne bien aimée se faire malmener par la machine hollywoodienne. Mais quand les ventes du livre commencent à se raréfier et que argent vient à manquer, elle accepte à contrecoeur de se rendre à Los Angeles pour entendre ce que Disney a imaginé… Au cours de deux semaines intenses en 1961, Walt Disney va se démener pour convaincre la romancière. Armé de ses story-boards bourrés dimagination et des chansons pleines d entrain composées par les talentueux frères Sherman, il jette toutes ses forces dans offensive, mais ombrageuse auteure ne cède pas. Impuissant, il voit peu à peu le projet lui échapper… Ce nest qu en cherchant dans le passé de P.L. Travers, et plus particulièrement dans son enfance, quil va découvrir la vérité sur les fantômes qui la hantent. Ensemble, ils finiront par créer un des films les plus inoubliables de histoire du 7ème art…

When Walt Disney's daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins (1964), he made them a promise - one that he didn't realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney's plans for the adaptation. For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn't budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp. It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers …

When Walt Disney's daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins (1964), he made them a promise - one that he didn't realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney's plans for the adaptation. For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn't budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp. It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers …