Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day
Added 2/7/2010
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Widescreen & Full Screen Edition) Great gift. Low price.
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, , , and another day
Added 1/30/2010
This movie is delicious and feminine; May this reviewer recommend it to you as a Valentines gift for a witty and humourous friend? Like the equally excellent "Julia" (with Annette Benning,) "Miss Pettigrew" is set in London just before the outbreak of the Second World War, using some of the same locations. Unlike "Julia" it's humour is sweet-tempered, presenting the sometimes ticklish romantic situations occurring between the sexes with hilarity. All good persons are rewarded in the end and all bad ones left to ponder their trespasses. Frances McDormand is delightful as Guinivere Pettigrew; Amy Adams is perfect as the ambitious "dumb blond" Delysia LaFosse; handsome Lee Pace is her love and her down fall. Shirley Henderson plays the catty lingerie designer, Edythe DuBarry giving depth to a character that could have been made of cardboard in some one else's hands. The period re-creation is excellent with a great eye for clothing and hair-styles, especially for Miss Adams and Miss Henderson.
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Superior Movie, Superior Service
Added 12/21/2009
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The movie itself is superior story, acting, direction, photography. One of the best I have seen in years.
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just like the oldies
Added 12/19/2009
If you like the love story comedies of the 1930s and 40s, then Mrs. Pettigrew is for you. Great performances by the principals and supporting players transports one back to 1939 London. A wonderful silly diversion.
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The movie opens in London in 1938, as an out-of-work nanny (Frances McDormand) finagles her way into a job interview as social secretary to a would-be actress (Amy Adams), and spends the next 24 hours caught up in her world of show biz glamour and chaotic romances.
This movie tries to recreate the madcap, screwball comedies of the thirties that starred the likes of Carole Lombard, Irene Dunne, and Claudette Colbert, but fails miserably. Amy Adams, as the harebrained young actress, overacts horribly and is neither likeable nor sympathetic, still looking like the gauche hayseed she played in Junebug. Frances McDormand is very good as the down-trodden title character, but the script is corny with a ridiculous fairy tale-ending, and dashing Ciaran Hinds is wasted as her lingerie-designer Prince Charming. Shirley Henderson tries to be a villain but with her Moaning Myrle voice, she can't pull it off.
The movie never captures the feel of the thirties and would have been better filmed in black and white and with a more subtle actress like Emily Watson instead of Miss Adams. Not recommended.
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