![]() Miss Pettigrew starts out drab and gets a little makeover from her grateful employer, but is still appropriately subdued for her age and station. Delysia starts the day practically naked and then changes clothes four times, getting more and more fabulous, so we see a great range of ’30s fashions. Lost from the town, a group of fortunate circumstances induce her to meet with Delysia LaFossea glamorous and dazzling American jazz singer whose lifetime has been a chaos ruled a continuous battle between fame and love, by indecision. Set in 1939 London, the movie follows the course of one improbable and hilarious day as down-and-out Miss Pettigrew helps Delysia through one madcap adventure after another and even finds love for herself with the dashing Joe ( Ciarán Hinds). Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who's not able to keep work, is fired again. Add to it wonderful period costumes by designer Michael O’Connor, and this is a feast for the eyes too. The casting of deadpan Frances McDormand as social secretary Miss Pettigrew to bubbly Amy Adams, an American singer Delysia, makes for fantastic comedy over the course of this fictional wacky day. I can’t believe this movie is a decade old because it feels timeless, fresh, funny, and as perfectly delightful today as when it came out! Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) may be a throwback to 1930s screwball comedies, but it’s not hokey or arch in ways that might be off-putting in the older flicks to kids these days.
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