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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

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In the ramshackle romantic something-or-other, "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day," Frances McDormand plays an English secretary with a talent for unemployment.

As her name might suggest, Guinevere Pettigrew is as prim and old-fashioned as a doily, even by the standards of the film's 1939 London setting. Trapped beneath the frizzy schoolmarm hair and threadbare frock, however, is a stifled lover...

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