First Hit: This is a delightful funny period piece with great sets and excellent acting from both Amy Adams and Frances McDormand.
Amy Adams, playing Delysia Lafosse, is absolutely delightful, fun and engaging as a high energy socialite who is playing three men against each other hoping to find an engagement or arrangement that will make her famous and wealthy.
Miss Pettigrew, played by Frances McDormand, is an out of work governess/nanny looking for another job. She has reasons as to why she’s lost all her previous jobs but the agency just cannot risk placing her any longer.
Miss Pettigrew finds herself on the streets of London with a stolen lead from the agency. Going up to the gorgeous flat as identified from this stolen lead, she knocks on the door and finds herself face to face with the high energy Delysia.
Delysia immediately asks Miss Pettigrew the time and realizes the flat’s owner will soon be home and the place is a mess and someone isn’t awake yet. Miss Pettigrew’s first task is to wake Delysia’s boy who, Miss Pettigrew soon finds out, is really a grown naked lover.
Miss Pettigrew makes her mark with Delysia by being quick on her feet by helping her deal with the three men in her life and becomes anointed as her social secretary.
What Miss Pettigrew does is teach Delysia to listen to her heart and move away from making herself available to men just to advance her career. Miss Pettigrew also finds joy along the way.
Overall: Both actresses are great in their roles and play off each other extremely well. This is a light hearted film and some of the sets are extremely well done and bring to life the 1930s.