Mar 08 2008
Pushing Daisies Fans Review “Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day”
Tonight is opening night for Pushing Daisies star Lee Pace’s new film Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day! We’re looking for ThePieMaker.com readers to give everyone their opinions on the film.
Not only is the movie receiving rave reviews, Lee’s brief appearance is all abuzz among the Daisies fanbase. We’re dying to know what each and every one of you thought of the film so leave your review in the comments section once you run out to see it this weekend.
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Short, but sweet: the film was wonderful, and Lee makes me smile. I thought he was absolutely perfect in this role and he and Amy have excellent chemistry together. Superb all around!
Now I am really dying to see this film.
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The movie was wonderful, and Lee was awesome in it! He plays the character so well that by the end you really end up caring for him and want to see him be happy. I really enjoyed the film and everyone should go and see it!
[…] from the New York Daily News, after the Writers of Pushing Daisies see him sing his way through Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, he’s certain that a Daisies musical episode is in his future. Lee Pace predicts that when […]
I loved this film and so did my husband (he said he could watch it again right away). The cast is excellent—especially Amy Adams, Frances McDormand, Ciarán Hinds (who as he did in “Persuasion,” proves that a man doesn’t have to be drop dead gorgeous to be sexy) and, of course, Lee (who plays such a different character from Ned so well that he once again shows his amazing range—his singing isn’t great, but he sells it beautifully).
I read a review that said the director, Bharat Nalluri, didn’t mine it for all the laughs, but I think he came up with just the right mixture of madcap farce and resonating emotional undertones (especially the conversations between McDormand’s and Hinds’ characters about the impending war, which aren’t in the original book). This is a film that sticks with you for a long time.
The production design is gorgeous and the attention to period detail is meticulous (my husband is a set designer, so he can attest to that). I felt truly “in” this world and didn’t want to leave it or the characters (one day felt like too little time to spend with them).
I had only one small complaint—that the story between McDormand’s and Hinds’ characters ends a bit too neatly (they could have just implied the outcome of their relationship), but that is a very small quibble…
This is a film I will buy on DVD the minute it comes out, and not just because of Lee being in it and my being a huge PD fan. It really is one of the best movies I’ve seen in the last year.
The movie was a very nice fluff and it had a very charming story. I think my opinion is a little tainted because I only loved the movie during Lee Pace’s scenes. I did, however, like the fact that it wasn’t just another romantic comedy where you know what will happen in the beginning, the end, and the middle.
I loved the witty writing and witty acting. I don’t know how they could have improved this movie. I would advise people not to watch the trailer (if it is at all possible) before watching the film. Most of the main jokes are in the trailer and since I had watched it several times, it was not that funny in the theater.
Lee Pace did a superb job in this movie! I was completely impressed with him. I knew he was a good actor but I never knew he had so many hidden talents. His brief song with Amy Adams was just beautiful! I went searching for it on YouTube the minute I got home. Plus, his British accent is bloody brilliant.
I would recommend this movie to anyone who loves to leave the theater smiling. It was one of the best romantic comedies that I have watched in the past year. They just don’t make them as clever and inspirational anymore. Go see this movie! If you can’t catch it in theaters — get it when it comes to DVD!
I’ve been lurking around the Piemaker sans commentary since the show started, but since I absolutely LOVED the movie I feel compelled to review. I saw Miss Pettigrew yesterday with my two Pushing Daisies pals, and the first thing we noticed was that we sixteen-year-olds were the youngest group in the theater–it seemed to be the film of choice for the senior living home near my house, because at least four rows of seats were filled with sweet senior ladies gossiping about cutie pie Amy Adams (they got a big surprise with Lee, I think–none of them knew about him!).
Anyway, so the movie started, and it was positively adorable–my friends and I are the types to want to yell at characters when we know they’re making a mistake, so we were silently harrassing Delysia for almost the entire film. The writing was good, and pretty classy for such a gooey story–I didn’t cringe like I thought I might. But the acting was what really grabbed me–what an amazing cast! Amy Adams was very cute, and I was delighted to recognize the throwbacks to Vivien Leigh and other stars of that era in her character’s coy smile and pout. Having watched so many pre-World War II era films, I felt that her performance was the one that really took me back to the time period and made me believe that these pretty faces I’ve seen in other movies are actually back in the 1930’s, right here, right now. But then Lee came on screen and I lost my critical viewer’s eye–though my friends and I hate being looked upon as “teenage girls,” we were trying hard not to squeal (what can we say? Scruffy and suave is a good look for him. But then again, so is shy and stuttering. The man can do no wrong). But, regardless of that, his performance really shocked all three of us. Having not seen much of him before, and owing to how well he plays his character on PD, we half expected to see Ned again stuttering down at us on the silver screen with a different leading lady. Not so! He played the role with all the passion and beauty we should have expected of him. Though we were already fans (and admittedly went to see the movie just to see him), we left the theater in love with him all over again–and so did the cute old ladies. As we left we heard them saying things like, “What a dashing young man! If I were twenty years old again…”
I saw the movie, it was AWESOME!!!!!
Lee’s accent was a tad off, but he is such an AMAZING actor, and he was incredibly fabulous and cuh-yute!!!!!