Nanny McPhee (2005)
Directed by Kirk Jones
Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.
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The same goes for Stellan Skarsgard (2004's " Exorcist: The Beginning ") and Colin Firth (2005's " Nanny McPhee ") as affable possible fathers Bill and Harry, though Firth does do a nice, low-key job with "Our Last Summer," over which he bonds with Sophie.
"Nanny McPhee" is full of the type of whimsical British morbidity that finds Cedric working in a mortuary with two gay assistants (Derek Jacobi, "Gladiator," "Gosford Park" and Patrick Barlow, "Bridget Jones's Diary") tending to old dead men with very gnarly feet.
Firth, the romantic-comedy stalwart of "Bridget Jones's Diary," "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "Love Actually," is just one of many talented names to grace a picture that doesn't deserve them (his bumbling is one of the film's saving graces).
I must confess to being mostly immune to the charms of “Tully,” basically “Nanny McPhee” as filtered through the foul-mouthed whimsy of Diablo Cody.