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  Written April 8, 2008

  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 the extravagant and promiscuous life of Lafosse and is the perfect woman for her new profession. She has a way with people and words and aids Adams with her career and moral issues. We are informed that Adams and McDormand are essentially the same woman. They are both playing roles to get by and make a life for themselves and they find out what true happiness is as the movie concludes. Miss Pettigrew is a love story with an ending the audience hopes for and has fantastic costume designs. ?The heart never lies?.

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  Written March 20, 2008

  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 of good jokes and good morals... and it has some amazing insights as far as our own selfish indulgences. You can chase your dreams your entire life, but the moment something threatens to make those dreams void (say for example, your country going to war and everyone losing power or worse) you realize what is truly important in life...
  
  Frances McDormand (you may remember her as the mom on Almost Famous) plays her best role yet, and impressive use of body language and facial expressions to portray rich emotion and messages without words. She made me empathize with her in such a real way.
  
  I love David Magee and Simon Beaufoy's adaptation of Winifred Watson's 1938 novel.
  
  Please go see this movie, you will leave the theater feeling light-hearted and ready to make any hard decision you've been worried about lately... :)

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  Written March 7, 2008

  Pettigrew Will Grow On You

  by jimchudnow

  From an advance screening: Despite a weak title, MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY was a surprisingly GOOD little comedy set in England just before the start of World War II. A lady who?s lost her job (Frances McDormand playing Miss Pettigrew) tries to get a position with an American singer Delysia Lafosse (played by bubbly and perky Amy Adams) in the home of a club owner whom she?s ?triple-timing? in trying to get ahead as an entertainer. The tag-line for the film is, ?Every woman will have her day?. That?s just somewhat accurate, in that -- almost by accident --, Miss Pettigrew helps out numerous people she meets along the way as she pretends to be a ?social secretary? for Delysia. There?s a bunch of interesting juxta-positioning of the dowdy & the super-rich, the deceitful and the sincere, in the midst of the machinations and music. It?s a low-key (rather than slapstick) type of comedy, with most of the humor flowing out of the cir***stances rather than clever banter. 3* out of 4.

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  Written March 8, 2008

  So surprised!!!

  by jammindude

  I took my wife because I thought she would like it, and its one of the best movies I've seen in years!! If you have any appreciation at all for decent movies (and not the "to call it crap would be an insult to crap" movies that Hollywood is so fond of putting out)....PLEASE GO SEE THIS MOVIE RIGHT AWAY!

  • 14 out of 18 found this review helpful.
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  Written April 4, 2008

  Miss Pettigrew the Very Thing!

  by suzyq3

  1. I think you can rarely go wrong seeing a movie featuring Frances McNormand.
  2. I am starting to think the same about movies with Amy Adams.
  3. It was delightful to see the Pie Maker (lee pace... pushing daisies...) on the big screen.
  
  The movie was about as entertaining a show as one could ask for. Go see it!

  • 11 out of 14 found this review helpful.
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  Written March 26, 2008

  Live for an evening!

  by strange_love

  For the 40+ crowd, this makes for a great night at the movies. Francis McDorland is tough to beat regardless of the film, but this is a terrific vehicle for her. In this film we get a peek at 1930's nouveau riche culture, with an American would-be starlet as an entertaining foil, and all around crisp, amusing, and at times touching dialogue. Don't hesitate to give this one a try.

  • 10 out of 13 found this review helpful.
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  Written April 6, 2008

  great feel good movie

  by spaganya

  Honestly one of the best movies i have seen in a while. It is reminiscent of the old school 1940's movies that i loved so much that used to play all the time on AMC or TCM. The way it ran was a lot like a play - you can tell there were solid staging and it would translate well to stage.
  
  all in all, great acting, wonderful story line and i walked out of the theater with a smile on my face :)

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  Written March 29, 2008

  never checked my watch

  by peggyslow

  this was very entertaining, i was expecting a chick flick, but my husband enjoyed it also. reminded me of the old fashioned movie with a story you could follow and a happy ending. I was never bored

  • 11 out of 16 found this review helpful.
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  Written March 12, 2008

  not the average

  by audgepodge

  it's a cute movie, and it's definately not the average tale. Although Amy Adams' character, Delysia, is quite the histrionic persona, she makes the character almost naive and endearing. I liked the plot, I liked the casting, I liked the era, I liked the costuming. The only part that the movie lacked on was character development. Then again...with a movie taking place over the span of a single day, i'm not sure how much development you could force into it. It's a sweet film. See it.

  • 6 out of 7 found this review helpful.
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  Written April 3, 2008

  Oh so good...

  by moviemaegs

  I haven't left a movie feeling this good in a long time. I found myself with a ridiculous smile on my face the whole time. I loved the actors, they were perfect for the parts of the movie. The moral of the show was perfect and true. Set back in WWII London, this show is for young and old alike.

  • 8 out of 11 found this review helpful.
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  Written March 31, 2008

  Miss Pettigrew Rocked Fargo But Rocks London Even Harder

  by Josie Spencer

  Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is not about a shallow actress/singer too silly to see the real love of her life, it is a movie about emotionally crippled couple who find one another after having written off the chance of anything so amazing happening to them.
  
  I love the way they did the "make-over" on Miss Pettigrew, not doing some bizarre version of the Princess Diaries - they just took off that awful brown and softened the edges. Besides - Frances McDermond is never beautiful until she smiles. She started the movie with zero to smile about and ended it with an amazing smile that made her gorgeous from head to toe.
  
  Loved the movie - if you had to name one silver lining garnered from the storm clouds of war, it is that it makes little people dry away like the puddles they are while making the best shine like the sun.
  
  

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  Written March 9, 2008

  Mrs. Pettigrew Lives for a Day

  by smithpa-_movie_buff

  This movie is a throw back to the screw ball comedies of the fourties. In fact the movie setting is during World War 2. The movie was funny and Frances McDormand played her character quite droll. There is some nudity (male and female) but I think it's a movie you can take your teenage children to.

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  Written March 19, 2008

  Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

  by Leonly

  Very entertaining, with good human interest and realistic characterization. Ending was somewhat predictable; otherwise would have been a 'Must Go.'

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  Written May 1, 2008

  Charming chick flick

  by mqdean

  This a very sweet, highly improbable film that will appeal to anyone who still gets a bit wistful when they see Cinderella (even though they would NEVER admit it!) I enjoyed ever minute of the film and left with a smile on my face. A great antidote for a downer day.

  • 9 out of 14 found this review helpful.
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  Written March 10, 2008

  a joy

  by mikeypeters

  Excellent performances by two great actresses light up the screen in this intelligent and touching film. There's a screwball element to the film, to be sure, but there's also a good heart and a lesson of love. Fans of P. G. Wodehouse's stories will find this familiar seeming territory. It was a great pleasure to go to a movie that treats its audience with such loving respect. See it, and pay attention.

  • 9 out of 14 found this review helpful.
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