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Adams ‘Lives’ for new roles

Published on April 10, 2007

I want to be Amy Adam’s agent. If film history proves us right, her role in Junebug gave casting agents a new choice in categories such as: wholesome, southern, naïve, red head and now with Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day: period pic inhabitant.

Joining the already cast Francis McDormand, the Focus Features romantic tale set in 1939 will see Adams portray an American songbird who befriends the governess (McDormand) sent to her home by mistake. Written by Simon Beaufoy and David Magee, this is based on Winifred Watson's book first published in 1938. The title character is a seasoned governess who gets a taste of a more glamorous, exciting life when sent to work in the home of nightclub performer Miss La Fosse and entrusted with sorting out the latter's highly unrespectable affairs. Bharat Nalluri, helmer of HBO mini “Tsunami: The Aftermath,” is directing.

We should see plenty of Adams in 07/08’ – with the holiday release of Charlie Wilson's War and indie pic Sunshine Cleaning to follow the year after.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).