Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day (2008)


Amy Adams               Delysia Lafosse
Lee Pace                Michael
Mark Strong             Nick
Frances McDormand       Miss Pettigrew
Shirley Henderson       Edythe
Ciaran Hinds            Joe
Christina Cole          Charlotte Warren
Beatie Edney            Mrs. Brummegan
Stephanie Cole          Miss Holt
Mo Zinal                Lenny
Clare Clifford          Margery
Sarah Kants             Annabel Darlington

Directed by:            Bharat Nalluri
Produced by:            Paul Webster, Stephen Garrett, Nellie Bellflower


In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again 
unfairly dismissed from her job. Without so much as severance pay, Miss Pettigrew realizes that 
she must--for the first time in two decades--seize the day. This she does, by intercepting an 
employment assignment outside of her comfort level--as "social secretary." Arriving at a penthouse 
apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying 
social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse. Within minutes, Miss Pettigrew 
finds herself swept into a heady high-society milieu--and, within hours, living it up. Taking the 
"social secretary" designation to heart, she tries to help her new friend Delysia navigate a love 
life and career, both of which are complicated by the three men in Delysia's orbit; devoted pianist 
Michael, intimidating nightclub owner Nick, and impressionable junior impresario Phil. Miss Pettigrew 
herself is blushingly drawn to the gallant Joe, a successful designer who is tenuously engaged to 
haughty fashion maven Edythe--the one person who senses that the new "social secretary" may be out 
of her element, and schemes to undermine her. Over the next 24 hours, Guinevere and Delysia will 
empower each other to discover their romantic destinies.

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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?