Nanny McPhee

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Nanny McPhee
Image:Nanny mcphee.jpg Nanny McPhee promotional poster
Directed by	Kirk Jones
Produced by	Tim Bevan Lindsay Doran Eric Fellner
Written by	Emma Thompson Christianna Brand (books)
Starring	Emma Thompson Colin Firth Angela Lansbury
Music by	Patrick Doyle
Cinematography	Henry Braham
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	October 21 2005 (UK) January 27, 2006 (USA) January 12, 2006 (Australia)
Running time	98 min.
Language	English
Budget	$34,000,000 (estimated)
IMDb profile

Nanny McPhee is a 2005 children's film. It was adapted from Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda books by Emma Thompson.

On the BBC1 television show Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, Emma Thompson revealed that a film trilogy is planned.

Contents 1 Plot outline 2 Starring 2.1 The Brown Children 3 Nanny McPhee's Five Lessons 4 External links

Plot outline

Widower and undertaker Cedric Brown has seven children: Tora, Simon, Lily, Eric, Christianna, Sebastian, and Aggie. He loves his children but spends little time with them and cannot handle them. The children have had a series of seventeen nannies, which they systematically drive out by bad behavior; it is a point of pride for them to drive out each nanny as fast as possible. They also terrorize the cook, Miss. Blatherwick, but are cared for and loved by Evangeline, the scullery maid.

Cedric attempts to hire another nanny from the agency who gave him the past seventeen nannies. The company wouldn't allow him to hire another. After a series of mysterious events, an unusual woman named Nanny McPhee comes to help. With discipline, and a little magic, she transforms the family's lives. In the process, she herself transforms from ugly to beautiful. The children, led by the eldest son Simon, first try to play their tricks on her, but gradually start to respect her and ask her for advice. They change to responsible people helping their hapless father in solving the family problems, making McPhee less and less needed.

The family is financially supported by Cedric's nearsighted Aunt Adelaide (his late wife's aunt, his aunt by marriage, and the children's great-aunt). However, she demands custody over one of the children. She first wants Christianna (Chrissy), one of the daughters, but, as the children - and Cedric himself - are loath to part with one of the siblings, Simon offers up Evangeline in Chrissy's place. Adelaide agrees, assuming she is one of the daughters, adopting her as her own, something which satisfies both Evangeline's wish to be properly educated and the requirement of Adelaide's latest condition to the contract.

She also threatens to cut off the allowance unless Cedric remarries within the month. The family would lose the house, and it would not be able to stay together. Desperate, Cedric turns to frequent widow Mrs. Quickly. The children assume from books that stepmothers are terrible. Therefore they sabotage a visit of Mrs. Quickly, who leaves, angry at Cedric. After the children are explained the truth about their father's situation, they agree to the marriage, and appease Mrs. Quickly by confessing they were to blame for the disturbance of her visit.

However, they discover that Mrs. Quickly is unkind, as they suspected all along. When everyone is gathered for the marriage ceremony, they disturb the ceremony by pretending a swarm of bees has been attracted to Quickly's flowered hat. Things quickly get out of hand, resulting in a food fight. Cedric understands that they do not like the bride, and that he does not like her himself, and therefore starts disrupting the ceremony himself. Mrs. Quickly cancels the marriage and storms off.

This seems to mean that Adelaide's marriage deadline is missed. But then Lily asks Evangeline whether she loves Cedric, before clearing up the idea of incest. She first denies it, explaining that that would be inappropriate because of her station as maidservant, but then admits she does. Cedric then admits that, he too is in love with Evangeline.Cedric marries Evangeline.

Nanny McPhee taps her magic cane one last time, and a glorious shower of snow (in August, in accordance with Miss. Blatherwick's saying that "it'll be snow in August before this family's straightened out") decorates the landscape, providing the perfect backdrop for the marriage of Cedric and Evangeline. Aunt Adelaide's demand is satisfied, and all of the family's problems are solved.

Her duty done, Nanny McPhee leaves surreptitiously, in accordance with what she told the children before: "When you need me, but do not want me, then I will stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go."

Starring

• Nanny McPhee - Emma Thompson
• Cedric Brown - Colin Firth
• Evangeline - Kelly Macdonald
• Great Aunt Adelaide - Angela Lansbury
• Mrs. Quickly - Celia Imrie
• Mrs. Blatherwick - Imelda Staunton
• Mr. Wheen - Derek Jacobi
• Mr. Jowls - Patrick Barlow

The Brown Children

• Simon - Thomas Sangster
• Tora - Eliza Bennett
• Lily - Jennifer Rae Daykin
• Eric - Raphael Coleman
• Sebastian - Sam Honywood
• Christianna "Chrissy" - Holly Gibbs
• Agatha "Aggie" - Hebe Barnes and Zinnia Barnes

Nanny McPhee's Five Lessons

Nanny McPhee has five very important base lessons which she teaches the children, while also teaching them discipline, manners and the consequences of their actions.

• First Lesson - To Go To Bed When They Are Told
• Second Lesson - To Get Up When They Are Told
• Third Lesson - To Get Dressed When They Are Told
• Fourth Lesson - To Say Please and Thank You
• Fifth Lesson - You Must Do Exactly As You Are Told

If you need me but do not want me I will stay; but when you want me but no longer need me then I have to go

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