Miss Pettigrew's big day
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Miss Pettigrew's big day |
| Original title | Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day |
| Country of production |
USA , UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bharat Nalluri |
| script |
David Magee Simon Beaufoy |
| production |
Nellie Bellflower Stephen Garrett |
| music | Paul Englishby |
| camera | John de Borman |
| cut | Barney Pilling |
| occupation | |
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Miss Pettigrew's Big Day is a 2008 US-British comedy film. Bharat Nalluri is based on the 1938 novel Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson .
action
London shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War : Guinevere Pettigrew is released several times as a nanny within a very short time . She has no possessions, no roof over her head, and she picks up her food from a homeless kitchen. After a night at the train station, she goes to her employment agency Miss Holt, who refuses to place her in another household. Miss Pettigrew therefore steals from her table the business card of a woman for whom Miss Holt is currently looking for a girl.
At the address given, she meets the chaotic Delysia Lafosse, who has no problem with children, but with coordinating her three lovers. There is theater producer Phil Goldman, who is currently in Delysia's bed. She sleeps with Phil to get the lead in his new play. Nick Calderelli is the owner of the nightclub where Delysia performs as a singer and also owns the apartment where Delysia lives. Nick has announced himself to his lover for the morning. Michael Pardue, on the other hand, is employed as a pianist by Nick, Delysia's duet partner, and was abandoned by her on the planned marriage proposal a few months ago - because he thought he couldn't offer her enough, he then wanted to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London while drunk , has been detained for several months and has just been released from prison.
The pastor's daughter Miss Pettigrew is horrified, but with her direct and boyish manner she manages to get Phil out of the apartment in time and to save Delysia from Nick. She accompanies Delysia to an underwear fashion show and meets bra designer Joe Blomfield and his ex-fiancée Edythe Dubarry, whose affair was the reason for the termination of the engagement. By chance Miss Pettigrew had seen Edythe kissing another man in the street. Edythe, who tells Delysia about Miss Pettigrew's morning stroke of genius with Phil and Nick, blackmailed Miss Pettigrew: she should bring Joe to her new engagement and hide the nightly affair and in return she would not tell anyone that she was actually a beggar. Shortly thereafter, Miss Pettigrew experienced a complete external beautification in Edyte's fashion salon.
Michael appears in Delysia's apartment, who gives Delysia the choice: Either she wants to marry him and go to New York City with him the next morning to make a career there as a duo, or he drive without her and never see her again. Delysia doesn't want to make up her mind so quickly and has a party in the afternoon. Here Phil is supposed to announce who will get the lead role in his new theater production. Due to Miss Pettigrew's commitment, Phil chooses Delysia and believes that she only loves him. Michael leaves the party disappointed. Cold Edythe's renewed engagement with Joe can also bring about Miss Pettigrew, but she feels that both successes are actually not successes. Michael is the only one who really loves Delysia and Joe too deserves someone better than the calculating Edythe.
In the evening everyone goes to Nick's nightclub, where Delysia appears as a singer for the last time. Michael, who accompanies them on the piano, asks them to perform the then famous, very emotional song If I Didn't Care with him , in which they both recognize that they love each other. Edythe once again brusquely left Joe behind and dances with Miss Pettigrew instead. Both get closer, especially since they were both affected by the First World War and cannot see the bombers flying again since the outbreak of the war as enthusiastically as the young generation around Delysia - Miss Pettigrew lost her only lover during the war, while many of Joe's classmates fell. Edythe, who surprises both of them in conversation, thinks Miss Pettigrew has told of her observation near the soup kitchen and admits her affair. At the same time, she reveals that Miss Pettigrew is actually a beggar who has just stolen the job as Delysia's private secretary. Joe finally separates from Edythe.
Miss Pettigrew leaves and does not return to Delysia until the next morning. She meets her with Michael - both are on their way to the ship to New York City. Miss Pettigrew stays behind and goes to the station. Here she meets Joe, who has been looking for her all night. He confesses his love to her and indirectly asks her to become his wife. She agrees and they both leave the station together.
production
The rights to the novel were sold in 1939 to Universal Pictures , who planned the film as a musical with Billie Burke in the lead role. The attack on Pearl Harbor ended work on the film prematurely. The film rights were extended in 1954, but the project was not implemented. Stephen Garrett first became aware of the book and suggested a film adaptation to Focus Features . Since the rights were still with Universal at the time and Focus Features is a subsidiary of Universal, the filming could finally be implemented from 2007.
The film was shot at the Theater Royal Drury Lane in Covent Garden , Whitehall Court and in the London borough of Pimlico. The fashion show scenes were created in the Savoy Hotel in London . The interior recordings took place in the Ealing Studios .
The film premiered on March 7, 2008 in the USA and had its German-language premiere on July 10, 2008 in Switzerland . The film was not released in Germany, but was released on DVD in early 2009.
Worldwide played Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day to March Dollar 2009 16724933.
criticism
The film-dienst described Miss Pettigrew's big day as a "lovingly designed, nostalgic charme staged social comedy based on a novel by Winifred Watson, which takes a lot of class arrogance and provides subtle entertainment with a good cast ensemble."
Awards
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day was nominated for Favorite Independent Movie at the People's Choice Awards in 2009, but lost to The Beekeeper .
Web links
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website for the film
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Miss Pettigrew's Big Day . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2008 (PDF; test number: 116 172 DVD).
- ↑ Keith Pickering. In: A long way to Hollywood. On: Miss Pettigrew's Big Day , DVD. Universe Film 2009.
- ↑ See boxofficemojo.com
- ↑ Miss Pettigrew's big day. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .