Can you get a life and discover love—all in one day? Two women are about to find out in Focus Features' critically acclaimed comedy Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day starring Academy Award honorees Frances McDormand (Fargo) and Amy Adams (Doubt, Enchanted).
The cast also includes Golden Globe nominee Lee Pace (TV's Pushing Daisies), Ciarán Hinds (There Will Be Blood), Mark Strong (Stardust, Body of Lies), and screen newcomer Tom Payne.
Based on the novel by Winifred Watson, Miss Pettigrew will be shown soon exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas (Glorietta 4 & Greenbelt 3).
The film is set in 1939 London, where Miss Guinevere Pettigrew (McDormand) 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 (Adams).
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 (Pace), intimidating nightclub owner Nick (Strong), and impressionable junior impresario Phil (Payne). Miss Pettigrew herself is blushingly drawn to the gallant Joe (Hinds), a successful designer who is tenuously engaged to haughty fashion maven Edythe (Shirley Henderson)—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.
"This is a stylish and entertaining story about making choices and living with the consequences—and right away I could clearly see myself playing the title role," says McDormand of the film.
Adams shares that the film "is a female-driven story that originated from a female perspective; the journey is about finding out what—and who—is right for you, what is truly best for you, and about being true to yourself even as you step outside of your comfort zone."
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