RAAC Film Series
“MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY”
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Focus Feature’s “Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day” - 2008 |
On September 5 at 8:00 p.m., RAAC Movies presents “Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day,” rated PG-13, 92 minutes runtime. RAAC brings films to the Theatre on Gay Street, Washington, Virginia, on Fridays, twice a month, for the Fall, Winter, and Spring seasons.
Synopsis: When a governess loses her job, she is thrown into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer.
The film stars Frances McDormand and Amy Adams, and is directed by Bharat Nalluri.
Review: Stephen Holden of the New York Times writes, “Acting, of course, has something do with it. But the charm that emanates from Amy Adams, as like a perfume in ‘Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day’ is also a natural gift.
Her character, Delysia Lafosse, an American actress and singer clawing her way up the show business ladder in 1939 London, may be an amoral, sociopathic vixen. But in Ms. Adams’s portrayal she is also an irresistibly endearing creature of moods and whims, one who melts the hearts of the possessive, egotistical beaus she carelessly juggles while pursuing the leading role in a West End musical.
...Delysia’s foil, Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand), is an impecunious, strait-laced vicar’s daughter and governess. Desperate for work after being dumped by her employment agency, she steals someone else’s assignment for a job as Delysia’s social secretary. As the down-and-out Guinevere, Ms. McDormand is almost a dead ringer for Carol Burnett playing her charwoman character..” Read the complete review.
Fall 2008 Film Schedule
September 5. “Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day”
September 19. “Before the Rains”
October 3. “The Counterfeiters”
October 17. [to be announced]
November 7. “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”
November 21. “Wall-E”
All movies are shown at The Theatre in Washington, Virginia, on
www.theatre-washington-va.com.