Category: Movies → Nanny Mcphee 2009 [DVDRip]

Featuring: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, Kelly MacDonald, Celia Bannerman
Director: Kirk Jones
Producer: Lindsay Doran, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner
Distributor: Universal Pictures

“You’ll Learn To Love Her. Warts And All.”

“That which is loved is always beautiful.” ~ Norwegian Proverb

As a parent who also loves films, I have often asked myself if there would ever be a movie that “had it all.” So often, a “family film” seems to simply be an adult film which has been dumbed-down to be semi-appropriate for children. Despite the strong cast in “Nanny McPhee”, I did not have high hopes for the film. The release date had been postponed in the US, which is seldom a good sign. The trailers gave us a peek at a film which was obviously quite visually stunning with a strong and amazingly talented cast—vibrant and visually enchanting, a family film.

Based on a series of British books published for children in the 60’s, titled Nurse Matilda and written by Christianna Brand, comes the story of “Nanny McPhee”. Emma Thompson (who won an Academy Award in 1995 for the adapted screenplay of “Sense and Sensibility”) wrote the screenplay for this film over the course of nine years. Ms. Thompson remarked that one day, while dusting her bookshelf, she happened upon the Nurse Matilda books and suddenly remembered reading them as a child. As she thumbed through them, she got the idea that perhaps the character in these books would make a great movie. What started, then, as the inspiration of a possibility, transformed over time into a film which is already being deemed a classic. Under the direction of Kirk Jones (“Waking Ned Devine”), “Nanny McPhee” is sort of like “The Sound of Music” meets “Mary Poppins”—less the musical angles of those films.