![]() She has been maintaining an affair with Phil (Tom Payne), a producer's son who could get her the lead in a West End show while living with Nick (Mark Strong), the owner of the nightclub she's been performing at, all while dealing with conflicting emotions about her pianist Michael (Lee Pace), who is passionately in love with her. Miss Pettigrew appears at the home of one Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams), American singer/actress who has a most complicated love life. She takes the card for a new employer and goes to be interviewed. However, desperate times call for desperate measures. Her agency, tired of her constant dismissals, won't send her to anyone new. Miss Pettigrew (Frances McDormand), nanny, has been made redundant (fired in American English). ![]() It's the height of the Depression in Britain, and war looms ominously over that sceptered isle. The film itself, which having good moments (see picture above) never quite lives up to its billing. The source material for the film, I'm told, was pretty risqué and outrageous for its time. In the course of one amazing day, Miss Guinivere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) lives LIFE! She sees things and does things she's never done before and is swept up into a wild world that she had only heard faint rumors of: one of decadence, frivolity, and romance. ![]() ![]() The song What A Difference a Day Makes could have been the theme to Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day, if that song had been popular in 1939. ![]()
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