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Synopsis: War threatens London as Miss Pettigrew, a destitute governess, filches a client's card from her agency and presents herself at the door. A singer named Delysia Lafosse wants a social secretary as she seeks a West End role by sleeping with a feckless producer in the bed of Nick, a smarmy nightclub owner with whom she also dallies. She ignores Michael, her piano player, who loves her and has tickets for New York on the Queen Mary. Miss Pettigrew's job is to make sure Delysia gets the part. Over 24 hours, Miss Pettigrew is also called upon to help an ambitious and unfaithful fashion editor patch things up with her older fiancé, a lingerie designer. Has Miss Pettigrew found her calling?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Bharat Nalluri
Production: Focus Features
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
77%
PG-13
Year:
2008
92 min
$12,294,036
Website
558 Views


That is some relief,

I suppose.

Jolly nice to meet you, dear

lady, but who the devil are you?

Who is she, gorgeous?

She's, um...

You know, I'm not

altogether sure.

Pettigrew.

Guinevere Pettigrew.

Guinevere.

Guinevere. Wow.

Yes, but who is she?

What in the world is she doing

in this particular bedroom

when you are

so obviously starkers

beneath that delightful

gown, don't you know?

We have...

An engagement.

- A meeting.

Meeting. Important meeting.

- Indeed we do. In 20.

Two...

- Twenty-two.

Not 22, Guinevere,

dearest. Two minutes.

What the dickens

can be as important

as another hour in bed

with young Philip-me-lad?

You don't mind,

do you, Guinevere?

It's all a bit new to me,

and it's devilish good fun.

Besides, I have

nothing till lunch.

Come back to bed,

beautiful.

Baby, baby, I'd

love to, but I can't.

Come on, it's an awfully good

cure for a hangover, I'm told.

Edythe's lingerie

show is at 11:
00.

Anyway, haven't you

got to get ready?

Who are you lunching?

- Nobody, really.

Charlotte Warren.

The Rabbit?

Why? She run out of carrots?

- Sweetie-pops...

But you said the lead was mine.

Phil, honey, you promised!

It is. It is. I'm sure it

is. You're the one, baby.

I just have to

clear it with Daddy,

being the bounder with

the checkbook and all.

You know, he wants me to meet

her. Amazing voice, apparently.

If you like

air-raid sirens.

It's just lunch, darling.

Come on, Delysia.

Remind your producer why you're

right for such a passionate part.

Charlotte Warren

the actress?

Know her, what?

I did happen to see her last

night on Shaftesbury Avenue.

With who?

- Who with?

A man.

- Producer?

Mmm.

- Spivvy fellow?

Mmm.

- Nasty side-parting?

Mmm.

I knew it!

Danny ruddy Greenwood,

dash it all. On the poach.

Well, we'll see

about that.

Oh, Phil, you can't think that

Charlotte Warren is right for Hortensia?

Not with that

damp little nose.

Jacket?

- Behind you.

A quick egg

and I'm off.

I regret

we're out of eggs.

You know this?

- I'm afraid I do.

Bacon?

- So sorry, no.

Sausage?

- If only.

Smoked haddock fillets?

- Definitely not.

Toast.

I saw the baker's girl

deliver a loaf yesterday.

Allow me.

Guinevere, you've got to get him

out of here. We're on a deadline.

Toast is only

two minutes.

I realize it is not

my place, but

isn't it possible simply not to

answer the door to this Nick fellow?

Oh, I can't do that.

- Why?

It's his flat.

- Oh.

Jeepers, he's early!

Toast!

Marvelous.

Tie?

Any tea on the go,

perchance?

Sweets,

Danny Greenwood

is at this very second,

sending flowers around to

Charlotte's little warren.

You think so?

That does seem to be the

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David Magee

David Magee (born 1962) is an American screenwriter who was nominated for a 2004 Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Finding Neverland. Along with Simon Beaufoy, he wrote the screenplay for Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams, which was released in 2008. His 2012 screen adaptation of the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel earned him a Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is currently writing the screenplay for the Disney musical Mary Poppins Returns, directed by Rob Marshall, with music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. The film will star Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda and is scheduled for release in December 2018.Magee is also the screenwriter for the next Chronicles Of Narnia film, The Silver Chair, which is being produced by the Mark Gordon Company and released by TriStar films. more…

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