Quickly is just as cruel and awful as any fairytale stepmother when she deliberately breaks baby Aggie's beloved rattle (which previously belonged to their late mother). However, the children soon discover that Mrs. 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 realize 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, meaning the family would lose the house, and be forced to separate.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 domineering and short-sighted aunt-in-law 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 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 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, widowed undertaker Cedric Brown is the father of seven unruly children-Simon, Tora, Eric, Lily, Sebastian, Chrissie, and baby 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, the film stars Emma Thompson as Nanny McPhee, along with Colin Firth and Angela Lansbury. It was directed by Kirk Jones, co-produced 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 a 2005 British-American comedy-drama fantasy film based on the Nurse Matilda character by Christianna Brand.
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