When Walt Disney's daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers' "Mary Poppins," 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 the ...
| Tom Hanks | Walt Disney |
| Colin Farrell | Robert Goff Travers |
| Ruth Wilson | Margaret Goff |
| Annie Rose Buckley | Ginty |
| Emma Thompson | P.L. Travers |
| Paul Giamatti | Ralph |
| Jason Schwartzman | Richard Sherman |
| Bradley Whitford | Don DaGradi |
| B. J. Novak | Robert Sherman |
| Rachel Griffiths | Aunt Ellie |
| Steven Cabral | Clerk |
| Lily Bigham | Biddy |
| B.J. Novak | Robert Sherman |
| Kathy Baker | Tommie |
| Dendrie Taylor | Lillian Disney |
| Melanie Paxson | Dolly |
| Allan Gray | Banker |
| Victoria Summer | Julie Andrews |
| Andy McPhee | Mr. Belhatchett |
| Christine Langan | Executive Producer |
| Troy Lum | Executive Producer |
| Ronan Vibert | Diarmuid Russell |
| Andrew Mason | Executive Producer |
| Mia Serafino | Young Woman |
| Jerry Hauck | Premier Emcee |
| Thomas Newman | Composer |
| John Schwartzman | Cinematographer |
| Paul Trijbits | Executive Producer |
| Laura Waddell | Woman with Infant |
| Michael C. Swinehart | Porter (as Michael Swinehart) |
| Mark Livolsi | Editor |
| Fuschia Sumner | Flight Attendant (as Fuschia Kate Sumner) |
| Lauren E. Polizzi | Art Direction |
| David Ross Paterson | Doctor |
| Jessica Drake | Dialect Coach |
| Michelle Arthur | Polly |
| Kim D'Armond | Katie Nanna |
| Michael Swinehart | Porter |
| Bob Rusch | Doorman |
| Paul Tassone | Refreshment Tent Man |
| Luke Baines | Waiter |
| DB Albert | High Striker Game Operater |
| Demetrius Grosse | Bartender |
| Kimberly D'Armond | Katie Nanna |
| Claire Bocking | Nanny Claire |
| Hermione Baddeley | The Domestic |
| Marc Abbink | Airplane Passenger at Airport (uncredited) |
| Heather Christine Barnett | Fairgoer |
| Christine Ames | Airline Stewardess (uncredited) |
| Ashlee-Rose Barnett | Disneyland Guest (uncredited) |
| Jaeden Bettencourt | Young Child 1906 (uncredited) |
| Michael Corenblith | Production Designer |
| Andrew C. Keeter | production supervisor (as Andrew Keeter) |
| Susan Benjamin | Set Decorator |
| Melissa Bickerton | Mrs. Corry (uncredited) |
| Bronwyn de Beer | Passerby |
| Philip Steuer | Unit Production Manager |
| Rick L. Dean | Airplane Passenger |
| Daniel Orlandi | Custome Designer |
| Vincent M. Biscione | Premiere Guest (uncredited) |
| Andrew Blood | Photographer (uncredited) |
| Kate Biscoe | key makeup artist |
| Eric Corbin | Movie premier guest (uncredited) |
| Karen Dotrice | Jane Banks |
| Catherine Childers | key hair stylist |
| Alan Ehrlich | Applauding Australian Townsfolk |
| Fionagh Cush | makeup artist (as Fiona Cush) |
| Mary Czerwinski | Disneyland Mother (uncredited) |
| Lynne Alana Delaney | Stylish Bar Patron (uncredited) |
| Matthew Garber | Michael Banks |
| Deborah La Mia Denaver | co-department head makeup |
| Jenni Brown Greenberg | Makeup Artist |
| Cheryl Dent | Flight attendant (uncredited) |
| Stella Gordon | Baby Moira |
| Julie Hewett | co-department head makeup (as Julie Hewitt) |
| Seth Di Marco | Cab Driver (uncredited) |
| Tess Gordon | Baby Moira |
| Emily Katz | Makeup Artist |
| Hal Dion | Banker #2 (uncredited) |
| Johnny Guerra | Airport Traveler |
| Lynly Ehrlich | Mrs. DaGradi (uncredited) |
| Juan Guerra | Airport Passenger |
| Pauletta O. Lewis | hair stylist (as Pauletta Irwin) |
| Jennifer Lana Harper | Woman at the Pool |
| Patricia Garcia | Disneyland Attendee (uncredited) |
| Frances Mathias | hair department head / hair designer |
| Cat McCullough | makeup department assistant |
| Emilie Germain | Woman in Castle (uncredited) |
| Glynis Johns | Mrs. Banks |
| Stephen Goodman | Premiere Guest (uncredited) |
| Larry Justice | Chauffeur |
| Kerry Mendenhall | hair stylist |
| Gloria Ponce | hair stylist |
| Barbara Keegan | Flight attendant |
| Alan Gray | Banker (uncredited) |
| Stefanie Klausmann | Premiere Girl |
| Ariana Guido | Daughter / 1960 (uncredited) |
| Maria Sandoval | hair stylist |
| Karen Zanki | hair stylist |
| Richard Halverson | Academy Awards Attendee (uncredited) |
