![]() When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go".Ĭast Emma Thompson at the film's premiere in 2005 Nanny McPhee leaves surreptitiously, in accordance with what she told the children on her first night: "When you need me, but do not want me, then I must stay. Nanny McPhee, now fully beautified, magically makes it snow in August, transforming the wedding scene and changing Evangeline's clothes into a wedding dress, and restores Aggie's rattle. ![]() Evangeline and Cedric resist at first, but then realize their feelings for each other and agree to marry, satisfying Adelaide's conditions for maintaining her financial support. When it seems that Adelaide's marriage deadline is missed, Lily suggests that Cedric marry Evangeline the other children reveal to Adelaide that she is not, in fact, their sister. Quickly calls off the marriage and storms off in anger. Cedric swiftly understands his children do not like the bride and, recognizing that she is not right for him or his children, joins in the commotion himself. Quickly deliberately breaks baby Aggie's beloved rattle, which previously belonged to their late mother.Īt the gaudy wedding, the children pretend there are bees (inspired by the way Quickly told them to "behave," and baby Aggie repeating the word but pronouncing it as "beehive"), chase the guests, and start a food fight using banquet pastries. Quickly, intrigued when she hears about Adelaide's wealth and status, reconciles with Cedric and agrees to marry him. Quickly by confessing they were to blame for ruining her visit. After the financial rationale for the marriage is explained to the children, they realise their mistake the children appease Mrs. Quickly's visit, and she leaves, angry at Cedric. The children assume from reading fairy tales that all stepmothers are terrible women who treat their stepchildren like slaves together, they sabotage Mrs. She also threatens to reduce the family to poverty unless Cedric remarries within the month.ĭesperate, Cedric turns to vile and frequent widow, Mrs. She first wants second-youngest daughter Chrissie, but Evangeline volunteers to go and Adelaide agrees, assuming she is one of the daughters. The family is financially supported by Cedric's late wife’s domineering and short-sighted great-aunt Lady Adelaide Stitch, who demands custody over one of the children. Over time, the children become more responsible, helping their clumsy father in solving the family problems, making Nanny McPhee less and less needed. Each time the children learn a lesson, one of Nanny McPhee's facial defects magically disappears. The children, led by Simon, try to play their tricks on her, but after failing, they gradually start to respect her and ask her for advice. With discipline and a little magic, she transforms the family's lives. That same night during a storm, while the children cause havoc in the kitchen, Cedric opens the door to reveal a hideous woman, who introduces herself as Nanny McPhee. ![]() One day, Cedric discovers multiple references for a "Nanny McPhee" throughout the home. Besides their father, the only one the children will ever listen to is Evangeline, the family's uneducated but beautiful and sweet-natured scullery maid. Blatherwick, a former military cook who declares that there will be "snow in August" before the family is put to rights. They also take great pleasure in tormenting their cook, Mrs. The children have had a series of nannies, whom they have systematically driven out with their bad behaviour and pranks. He is clumsy and loves his children, but since the death of his wife, has spent little time with them and cannot handle them. ![]() In Victorian Britain in the 1860s, widower undertaker Cedric Brown is the father of seven unruly children-Simon, Tora, Eric, Lily, Sebastian, Christianna "Chrissie" and baby Agatha "Aggie". A sequel, Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, was released in 2010. The filming location was Penn House Estate, Buckinghamshire, UK. Thompson also scripted the film, which is adapted from Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda books. ![]() The film was theatrically released on 28 October 2005 in the UK by United International Pictures and on 27 January 2006 in the US by Universal Pictures. Set in Victorian England in the 1860s, the film stars Emma Thompson as Nanny McPhee, along with Colin Firth and Angela Lansbury. It was directed by Kirk Jones, coproduced by StudioCanal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Working Title Films, Three Strange Angels, and Nanny McPhee Productions with music by Patrick Doyle, and produced by Lindsay Doran, Tim Bevan, and Eric Fellner. Nanny McPhee is an American/British 2005 comedy drama fantasy film based on the Nurse Matilda character by Christianna Brand. ![]()
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