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Miss Pettigrew is a breezy period comedy carried by the strong performances of Amy Adams and Frances McDormand.
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McDormand is left trying for emotional depth in a sea of middling farce and semi-sophisticated comedy. Aug 15, 2008 | Rating: 2/5
McDormand is left trying for emotional depth in a sea of middling farce and semi-sophisticated comedy.
Derek Malcolm
It's lucky that Amy Adams and Frances McDormand lend their best charms to Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, otherwise this featherweight Art Deco fancy might drift away like a soap bubble, and go 'pop!' Aug 15, 2008 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's lucky that Amy Adams and Frances McDormand lend their best charms to Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, otherwise this featherweight Art Deco fancy might drift away like a soap bubble, and go 'pop!'
Anthony Quinn
American Lee Pace, from TV's Pushing Daisies, manages not one but several creditable English accents, sometimes unfortunately all in the same sentence, but whose emotional depth shows up this ball of fluff as insubstantial. Forgettable. Aug 15, 2008 | Full Review…
American Lee Pace, from TV's Pushing Daisies, manages not one but several creditable English accents, sometimes unfortunately all in the same sentence, but whose emotional depth shows up this ball of fluff as insubstantial. Forgettable.
Martin Hoyle
Despite its limitations, I found it impossible to dislike this frail little tale. Aug 15, 2008 | Full Review…
Despite its limitations, I found it impossible to dislike this frail little tale.
Jenny McCartney
McDormand is frankly bland and unresponsive in a role she clearly couldn't care less about; Adams's wide-eyed ingenue routine is on autopilot, and the whole thing looks like a sub-prime American TV movie. Aug 15, 2008 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
McDormand is frankly bland and unresponsive in a role she clearly couldn't care less about; Adams's wide-eyed ingenue routine is on autopilot, and the whole thing looks like a sub-prime American TV movie.
Peter Bradshaw
It's a squirming watch, at times quite tortuous because the film can never decide if it's a musical or a play with far too much music. Aug 15, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
It's a squirming watch, at times quite tortuous because the film can never decide if it's a musical or a play with far too much music.
James Christopher
This is a dream come true for every woman out there and truly does make you, even as an adult, believe in fairy tales and happy endings. Nov 13, 2019 | Full Review…
This is a dream come true for every woman out there and truly does make you, even as an adult, believe in fairy tales and happy endings.
Debbie Lynn Elias
McDormand is her usual reliable self, while Adams continues to show her acting chops, delivering a funny, charming performance. Oct 28, 2019 | Rating: B | Full Review…
McDormand is her usual reliable self, while Adams continues to show her acting chops, delivering a funny, charming performance.
Micheal Compton
Amy Adams is at her sassiest, which is saying something, and Frances McDormand is a luminous charm playing the genuine and rapidly changing Miss Pettigrew. Jul 26, 2019 | Full Review…
Amy Adams is at her sassiest, which is saying something, and Frances McDormand is a luminous charm playing the genuine and rapidly changing Miss Pettigrew.
Leslie Combemale
Fabulously funny and entertaining, but also slyly moving as well. Jun 6, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Fabulously funny and entertaining, but also slyly moving as well.
Matthew Lucas
However fanciful the happy endings are (and there must always be happy endings in this type of production), thanks to McDormand and a sweet, snappy script we believe and celebrate every moment of them. Oct 11, 2018 | Full Review…
However fanciful the happy endings are (and there must always be happy endings in this type of production), thanks to McDormand and a sweet, snappy script we believe and celebrate every moment of them.
Megan Basham
An obvious homage to the great screwballs of the past, films in which women were zany, mad things, and men were sticks in the mud, Miss Pettigrew packs a surprising amount of heart into a silk charmeuse, marabou puff of a story. Aug 22, 2017 | Full Review…
An obvious homage to the great screwballs of the past, films in which women were zany, mad things, and men were sticks in the mud, Miss Pettigrew packs a surprising amount of heart into a silk charmeuse, marabou puff of a story.
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