YMMV / Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

• Girl-Show Ghetto: Amy Adams disliked that the film was labelled a Chick Flick by some critics because it had two women as the leads.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: Delysia desires to be a famous actress and ends the movie leaving for New York to be with Michael. Fast forward ten years and Amy Adams collected five Oscar nominations and became one of the most respected actresses in Hollywood.
• Ho Yay: Teased between Guinevere and Delysia; at one point Delysia kisses Guinevere on the lips. When Guinevere sees Delysia naked, she says, "You are beautiful." And then there's the film poster◊...
• Narm Charm: Shirley Henderson's take on Edythe is very pantomimey but not enough to ruin the film.
• Values Dissonance: 70 years passed between the writing of the book and the making of the movie. Consequently, when the movie came about, some of the sentiments expressed in the book (particularly about Jews and foreigners) had disappeared. It's not hard to see why. There remains some Deliberate Values Dissonance, mainly regarding attitudes of the sexes about appropriate touching and honesty between genders.

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