- published: 26 Jun 2011
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Nanny McPhee is a 2005 fantasy film starring Emma Thompson and Colin Firth. Thompson also wrote the screenplay, which is adapted from Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda books.
In 19th century England, widowed Cedric Brown (Colin Firth) has seven children: 11-year old Simon (Thomas Sangster), 10-year old Tora (Eliza Bennett), 9-year old Lily (Jennifer Rae Daykin), 8-year old Eric (Raphaël Coleman), 7-year old Sebastian (Samuel Honywood), 5-year old Christianna (Holly Gibbs) and 1-year old baby Agatha (Hebe and Zinnia Barnes). He loves his children very much, but spends little time with them, unable to handle raising them all on his own, after their mother died. The children have had a series of seventeen nannies, whom they systematically drive out; it is a point of pride for them to get rid of each nanny as fast as possible. They also terrorize the cook, Mrs. Blatherwick (Imelda Staunton) but are cared for and loved by Evangeline (Kelly Macdonald) the young scullery maid.
Actors: James Newton Howard (composer), Ewan McGregor (actor), Emma Thompson (producer), Eric Fellner (producer), Emma Thompson (writer), Maggie Smith (actress), Liza Chasin (producer), Ralph Fiennes (actor), Rhys Ifans (actor), Emma Thompson (actress), Bill Bailey (actor), Tim Bevan (producer), Maggie Gyllenhaal (actress), Mick Hurrell (miscellaneous crew), Christina Angeloudes (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy,Actors: Emma Thompson (actress), Elton Farla (miscellaneous crew), Colin Firth (actor), Liza Chasin (producer), Tim Bevan (producer), Emma Thompson (writer), Patrick Doyle (composer), Celia Imrie (actress), Eric Fellner (producer), Phyllida Law (actress), Imelda Staunton (actress), Angela Lansbury (actress), Derek Jacobi (actor), Frédéric North (miscellaneous crew), Tarn Harper (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Cedric Brown is a sad and nostalgic widower, owner of an undertaker's business, who doesn't know how to manage the unsustainable situation with his undisciplined children. Every nanny (17 exactly) have run away from them. Simon, the oldest brother, is the head behind the pranks and he doesn't have a very good relationship with his father. But the solution will be Nanny McPhee, a magic nanny who literally falls from heaven to discipline the children and teach them some lessons.
Keywords: 1800s, 19th-century, adoption, aunt, baby, based-on-novel, boy-with-glasses, bully, buzzing, cake-in-the-face