Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

A late-'30s-era London governess hired to work in the home of a high-profile nightclub chanteuse gets a taste of the good life when she is assigned the task of sorting out the singer's many unseemly affairs in a period comedy starring Frances McDormand and adapted from the novel by Winifred Watson. ...more

Miss Pettigrew, she of the delightfully pleasant, semi-fairytale period comedy Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day, may have lived during the 1940s, but she faces obstacles, like unemployment and limited job options in the service sector, that women of today continue to encounter. Frances McDormand shuffles on screen as a dowdy and frumpy governess who can't hold a job as a caretaker because of her prickly personality and her uncanny knack for losing more jobs than she lands. She sneakily secures a ...more