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 starring Frances McDormand and adapted from the novel by Winifred Watson. Unfairly and unceremoniously dismissed from her latest position without so much as a penny of severance pay, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew (McDormand) realizes that in order to stay financially afloat she'll need...more
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Guinevere Pettigrew by Daydream Frances McDormand performs brilliantly from beginning to end as Delysia Lafosse?s (Amy Adams) new social secretary. Miss Pettigrew is thrown head first into...
Charming and Completely Entertaining! by ktnarnia Please, if you have any sense, go see this movie and ignore any negative comments made on these reviews! This movie is very fast-pased and funny! It's full...
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