★★★ Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
[Gino: 3.0, Twoshoes: 3.0]Gino says: 'Frances McDormand plays Miss Pettigrew, a down-and-out governess in brink-of-WWII London, who becomes a 'social secretary' for a man-juggling wannabe theater and film star played by Amy Adams. For a day only. Not surprisingly, she changes everyone's lives. This film is played mostly over-the-top, and not really in a bad way, so that most of it feels like a musical with few musical numbers. Cast is pleasant; film is polished, but will not change your life. Oddly I liked the more quiet bits best, as between McDormand's character and a similarly aged man, in which they quietly dread the imminent war as they see that the other socialites are too young to remember the last one. In retrospect, if this had been made in the 1960s, with Audrey Hepburn and Angela Lansbury in it, I think it would have been big.'
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You do realize that Lansbury and Hepburn were practically the same age?
Sure, but that wouldn't have stopped them.
Only tangentially-related, but do you remember in the film "Ping Pong" there was like a 20 year old woman playing like a 65 year old woman? That was bad.
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