Nonureva Really Surprised!

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

tbills2 Miss Pettigrew is dismissed by another governess client due to her "utter unsuitability" thus creating the hapchance pairing with Delysia and the glimpse into her glamorous socialite world. After spending years having studied screwball comedies at the University of Harvard/just looked it up on wikipedia 10 minutes ago, I've determined that Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day has all the essential elements of the screwball formula, witty back and forth, farfetched scenarios, an escape from reality, '30s social class clashing, but the unconventional twist is Miss Pettigrew being a miss and not a mister. Typically, per knowledge I obtained through critical research years at Harvard/10 minutes on wikipedia, an unstable male character is swirling uncontrollably within their relationship with a dominating female character. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day executes with two females, Frances McDormand and Amy Adams, and it still works the same. Pretty genius. This is a fun pleasing show. Frances is very pretty as Pettigrew and I do love her in this role as I do all her roles. Amy is really sweet. Really, really sweet. I like smiley Amy.

lythea-1 I never get tired of watching this movie. The first time I saw it, in fact, I was so enthralled that I immediately started it over again. And that's never happened before or since. Just watched it again, and it still makes me laugh, still makes me cry. All these beautiful details that you appreciate more and more as time goes on. Everyone is perfect in their role. Everything feels right. I was so delighted to read that it was originally written in 1938, which partially explains why it feels so spot on, I suppose. Not that even my parents were alive then, I just love old movies. Basically, it's a lovely meditation on what love is good for, and why we keep on subjecting ourselves to it. I'm crying right now, guys. I'm crying right now. This movie is too damn perfect.

Desertman84 A late-'30s-era London governess hired to work in the home of a high- profile nightclub chanteuse gets a taste of the good life when she is assigned the task of sorting out the singer's many unseemly affairs in a period comedy entitled Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day,a romantic comedy film directed by Bharat Nalluri.The movie stars Frances McDormand and Amy Adams together with Ciarán Hinds and Lee Pace. The screenplay by David Magee and Simon Beaufoy is based on the novel of the same title by Winifred Watson.Frances McDormand portrays Miss Pettigrew, whose inability to hold a job in London as a governess compromises her well-being shortly before England's entry in World War II. Finessing her way into a position as social secretary to a young, American gold-digger and singer named Delysia Lafosse, the starving Miss Pettigrew finds herself at the center of a whirlwind that is her new employer's life. Hemmed in by lovers and suitors--including a young, theatrical producer looking to cast one of his pleasing girlfriends in a plum role; a creepy nightclub owner in whose flat Delysia lives; and a pianist who genuinely loves her. Delysia needs a map to figure out how to navigate through life. Miss Pettigrew, who suffered a loss during World War I that she does not speak of, nudges the naive songstress toward wise decisions. But she is at the mercy of Delysia's formidable friend, who knows the truth about her impoverished state and is engaged to a much older man. The latter, a fellow of substance who seems to be meandering through life, falls instantly for the soulful Miss Pettigrew.This is a breezy period comedy carried by the strong performances of Amy Adams and Frances McDormand. Wisely cast, this handsome production is a delightful farcical fairy tale, bolstered by moments of depth and emotion.Also,it is a well-acted comedy with enough old-fashioned qualities to make it an enjoyable experience for long-standing audiences that is happens to be an undeniably entertaining film due to its pacey direction.

Roland E. Zwick "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" is an old-fashioned, moderately entertaining comedy-of-manners that is never quite as captivating or as scintillating as we keep hoping it will be.This roundelay of love, drawing-room comedy and farcical misunderstandings takes place among the snooty theatrical set in pre-WWII London. Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams) is an ambitious if slightly ditzy American actress who's juggling an assortment of romantic and sexual partners on her way to fame and fortune. Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances MacDormand) is a frumpy, somewhat eccentric, but wise and ethical professional governess who, in her capacity as Delysia's personal "social secretary," helps to steer the morally unfocused ingénue through the shoals of emotional game-playing and artful deception that are practically de rigueur in the social world to which she aspires – only to discover that the two women have more in common with one another than their widely disparate positions on the social scale would lead one to suspect.Based on the novel by Winfred Watson, with screenplay by David Magee and Simon Beaufoy and direction by Bharat Nalluri, "Pettigrew" suffers from creaky plotting, strained comedy routines, and a gruelingly predictable outcome, but the performances are classy (especially by McDormand), the settings rich in atmosphere and ambiance, and the whole thing so entirely inoffensive and good-natured that we can't really complain too much if it isn't all we would like it to be.