Nanny McPhee 1 🎥 2005 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In Victorian England, a widowed undertaker named Cedric Brown is the father of seven unruly children— 12-year-old Simon, 11-year-old Tora, 10-year-old Eric, 9-year-old Lily, 7-year-old Sebastian, 7-year-old Christianna and 1-year-old baby Agatha. Cedric is clumsy but loves his children; however, since the death of his wife, he has spent little time with them and cannot handle or discipline them. The children have had a series of seventeen nannies, whom they have systematically driven out with their misbehaviour and practical jokes. They also take great pleasure in tormenting their cook, Mrs Blatherwick, a former military cook who declares that there will be “snow in August” before the family is put to rights.

Besides their father, the only one the children will ever listen to is Evangeline, the family’s illiterate but sweet-natured scullery maid. One day, Cedric discovers multiple references for a “Nanny McPhee” throughout the home. That same night during a storm, while the children cause havoc in the kitchen, Cedric opens the front door to reveal a hideous woman who introduces herself as Nanny McPhee. With discipline and a little magic, she transforms the family’s lives. The children, led by Simon, try to play their tricks on her, but after failing, they gradually start to respect her and ask her for advice. Each time the children learn a lesson, one of Nanny McPhee’s facial defects magically disappears. Over time, the children become more responsible, helping their clumsy father in solving the family problems, making Nanny McPhee less and less needed.

The family is supported financially by Cedric’s late wife’s domineering and short-sighted aunt, Lady Adelaide Stitch, who demands custody over one of the children. She selected the second-youngest daughter, Chrissie, but Evangeline volunteers to go in her place and Adelaide agrees, assuming she is one of the daughters. She also threatens to reduce the family to poverty unless Cedric remarries within the month, which would result in them losing their house and being forcibly split up.

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