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Box office. $16,724,933. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a 2008 romantic comedy film directed by Bharat Nalluri, starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams. The screenplay by David Magee and Simon Beaufoy is based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Winifred Watson.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day: Directed by Bharat Nalluri. With Amy Adams, David Alexander, Clare Clifford, Christina Cole. Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Bharat Nalluri
- 2008-03-07
Jun 1, 2009 · January 2, 2021. "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" is a humorous 1938 novel about second chances. Guinevere Pettigrew is a destitute governess in her 40s who was sent by her employment agency to interview for a job. The agency had mixed up their clients, and they sent her to Delysia LaFosse who was in need of a maid.
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- Paperback
Synopsis. In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew (played by Ms. McDormand) is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Without so much as severance pay, Miss Pettigrew realizes that she must for the first time in two decades seize the day. This she does, by intercepting an employment assignment ...
Miss Pettigrew is a breezy period comedy carried by the strong performances of Amy Adams and Frances McDormand. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day reminds us why Golden Age cinema works, why those ...
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- Bharat Nalluri
- PG-13
- Frances Mcdormand
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a novel by Winifred Watson, first published in 1938 by Methuen & Co with illustrations by Mary Thomson. A US edition was published in 1939 by D. Appleton-Century Company. [2] In 2008 the novel was adapted into a film of the same name.
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Mar 7, 2008 · Overview. London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a series of fortunate circumstances lead her to meet Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous and dazzling American jazz singer whose life is a chaos ruled by indecision, a continuous battle ...
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