By Ryan Parsons | Images property of Universal Pictures
Nanny Mcphee
While running around today I was able to catch the movie trailer for Nanny McPhee on television while waiting in line at a department store. The comedy from Universal Pictures had not received much love before 2006 but it now seems that the picture house is willing to spend a bit of money on marketing before the film's upcoming release-- which is coming quicker than you think.
Nanny McPhee Movie Stills, Poster, Trailer and Synopsis
Nanny McPhee is one weird looking movie. The film features a small portion of the cast from Love Actually and has a formula that mixes magic, family and comedy all into one. Since family films have been a hit over the recent holiday weekends, maybe Universal Pictures will find added success for Nanny McPhee as well.
Emma Thompson, whose first screenplay won the 1995 Oscar® for Sense and Sensibility , returns to screenwriting with Nanny McPhee, a motion picture adaptation of the Nurse Matilda books by Christianna Brand. Thompson, the only person to have won Oscars® for both acting and writing, also plays the title role in Nanny McPhee, opposite Colin Firth, Kelly Macdonald and-in her first role for the big screen in two decades-Angela Lansbury.
In this dark and witty fable, Thompson portrays a person of unsettling appearance and magical powers who enters the household of the recently widowed Mr. Brown (Firth) and attempts to tame his seven exceedingly ill-behaved children. The children, led by the oldest boy Simon (Love Actually's Thomas Sangster), have managed to drive away 17 previous nannies and are certain that they will have no trouble with this one. But as Nanny McPhee takes control, they begin to notice that their vile behavior now leads swiftly and magically to rather startling consequences.
Colin Firth in Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee
Evil grandmother arrives for Nanny McPhee
Emma Thompson is Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee
Her influence also extends to the family's deeper problems, including Mr. Brown's sudden and seemingly inexplicable attempts to find a new wife; an announcement by the domineering Aunt Adelaide (Angela Lansbury) that she intends to take one of the children away; and the sad and secret longings of their scullery maid, Evangeline (Kelly Macdonald). As the children's behavior begins to change, Nanny McPhee's arresting face and frame appear to change as well, creating even more questions about this mysterious stranger whom the children and their father have come to love.
Nanny McPhee is directed by Kirk Jones (writer/director of Waking Ned Devine). The producers are Lindsay Doran (in her third collaboration with Thompson, following Sense and Sensibility and Dead Again) and Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.
Colin Firth in Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee
Evil grandmother arrives for Nanny McPhee
Emma Thompson is Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee
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