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MARY POPPINS
June 12, 2020  | By David Bianculli

Freeform, 8:00 p.m. ET

 
Released in 1964. And Dick Van Dyke’s kooky cockney accent aside, this Disney film, based on the P.L. Travers story and starring Julie Andrews as the titular mystery nanny who arrives to help an imperious banker and his children in turn-of-the-century London, is another family-film charmer. My suggestion: Find the 2013 drama Saving Mr. Banks, which is about the making of this movie and stars Emma Thomson as Travers and Tom Hanks as Walt Disney, and watch it and Mary Poppins as a delightful double feature. In any order. (It's available on Netflix, Amazon Prime, iTunes and elsewhere.)
 
 
 
 
 
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