Nanny McPhee is a 2005 fantasy film starring Emma Thompson and Colin Firth. Thompson also wrote the screenplay, which is adapted from Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda books. In 19th century England, widowed Cedric Brown has seven children: 11-year old Simon , 10-year old Tora , 9-year old Lily , 8-year old Eric , 7-year old Sebastian , 5-year old Christianna and 1-year old baby Agatha . He loves his children very much, but spends little time with them, unable to handle raising them all on his own, after their mother died. The children have had a series of seventeen nannies, whom they... systematically drive out; it is a point of pride for them to get rid of each nanny as fast as possible. They also terrorize the cook, Mrs. Blatherwick but are cared for and loved by Evangeline the young scullery maid. Cedric attempts to hire another nanny from the agency that sent the past seventeen nannies, but the agency refuses him, as the children have sent the past nannies away, terrorized.
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| Release date: | October 21, 2005 |
| Directed by: | Kirk Jones |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 98 Minutes |
| Producer: | Tim Bevan, Lindsay Doran, Eric Fellner |
| Editor: | Justin Krish, Nick Moore |
| Music by: | Patrick Doyle |
| Cinematography: | Henry Braham |
| Screenplay by: | Emma Thompson |
| Estimated budget: | $34,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Nurse Matilda |
| Genre: | Comedy, Fantasy |