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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a american film of genre Drama directed by Bharat Nalluri released in USA on 7 march 2008 with Frances McDormand
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
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Add to a movie listMiss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a 2008 romantic comedy film directed by Bharat Nalluri. The screenplay by David Magee and Simon Beaufoy is based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Winifred Watson.
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Set in London just prior to World War II, the film is about a middle-aged, strait-laced vicar's daughter and governess Guinevere Pettigrew, who has been fired from her fourth job. When employment agency head Miss Holt insists that she will not help her, the destitute Miss Pettigrew leaves the office with an assignment intended for a colleague, unaware that flamboyant American singer-actress Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams) wants a social secretary rather than a nanny.Actors
Frances McDormand
(Guinevere Pettigrew)
Amy Adams
(Delysia LaFosse)
Ciarán Hinds
(Joe Blomfield)
Lee Pace
(Michael Pardew)
Mark Strong
(Nick Caldarelli)
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