# Nanny McPhee

Nanny McPhee is a 2005 in American/British comedy film drama film and fantasy film based on the Nurse Matilda character by Christianna Brand. It was directed by Kirk Jones, coproduced by Universal Pictures, StuidoCanal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Working Title Films with music by Patrick Doyle, and produced by Lindsay Doran, Tim Bevan, and Eric Fellner. Set in Victorian England in the 1860s, the film stars Emma Thompson as Nanny McPhee, along with Colin Firth as Cedric Brown and Angela Lansbury as Great-Aunt Lady Adelaide.
    Directed by Kirk Jones. Written by Emma Thompson.

## Nanny McPhee

* [repeated line] There is something you should understand about the way I work. When you need me, but do not want me, then I must stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go. It's quite sad really, but there it is.
* Your children require 5 lessons.
** Lesson 1: to go to bed when they're told, is complete.
** Lesson 2: to get up when they're told, is complete.
** I think you'll find that lesson 3: to get dressed when they're told, is complete.
** Lesson 4 is complete. (Cedric: Lesson 4?) To listen.
** Lesson #5, Simon. You must do exactly as you're told.

## Cedric Brown

* Some bout of influenza at Archway is carrying off all the old folks. Still, what's bad for them, good for us.
* [first lines] We must begin our story, sad to say with an empty chair. If it were not empty, we would not have a story. But it is. And we do. And it is time to tell it. This is the story of my family, of my seven children who were all very clever, but all very, very, very, naughty. [the 17th nanny screaming] This is nanny Whetstone. The 17th nanny I had hired to look after my children. She was the strictest, the toughest, and the most fearless nanny in all the land. As I went to work that day, at the funeral parlor, I was confident in the knowledge that there was nothing, absolutely nothing that my children could do to upset her. [she comes in and tells him something] (Nanny Whetstone: They've eaten the baby!!!) Except that.
* Take your hands off my children.

## Simon Brown

* I NEVER say "please"!
* Pleased to make your acquaintance. I'm Oglington Fartworthy.
* You never listen! (runs off)
* Bee hive?
* Papa's coming.

## Chrissie Brown

* Buzzems!
* (referring to Aunt Adelaide) No, she wanted me. I'll go.

## Aunt Adelaide

* Let me not beat about the bush, Cedric. The problem with you is that you have too many children.
* If there's one thing I won't stand for, it's loose vowels.

## Mrs. Quickly

* Will you just look at them? Aww. The little, small things.
* I am your mother now. (she breaks Aggie's rattle)
* Typical of a man, sending his little ones to do the dirty work.

## Dialogue

    Nanny McPhee: There is something you should understand about the way I work. When you need me, but do not want me, then I will stay. If you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go. It's quite sad really, but there it is.
    Simon: We will NEVER want you!
    Nanny McPhee: Then I will never go.
    Mr. Wheen: (on the concept of his unruly children) We always told you, Mr. Brown...
    Mr. Jowls: It's not funerals you should be working with...
    Cedric: (nodding, miming along)
    Both: It's christenings! (uproarious laughter)
    Cedric: (sighs, before laughing along with them)
    Mr. Brown: Nanny McPhee! Now she can't take the donkey, so what have you done?
    Nanny McPhee: I have done nothing, sir. The children have decided amongst themselves.
    Mr. Brown: Decided what?
    Great Aunt Adelaide: (off in distance) There you are, my dear.
    Mr. Brown: Not little Chrissy. (runs from the house) Chrissy!
    Great Aunt Adelaide: (in the carriage) Now, then, you'd better tell me your name, little girl.
    Mr. Brown: (bolts down the road) Chrissy!
    Great Aunt Adelaide: Don't be shy, my dear. What is your name?.
    Mr. Brown: (in the forest) Chrissy!
    Great Aunt Adelaide: Sit up straight, and tell me your name.
    Mr. Brown: (the carriage fades in the distance) NO! Christianna!
    Christianna: Papa! Papa!
    (races into her father's arms and hugs him)
    Mr. Brown: Oh, thank... (the other children run up to him) Oh... Then who is...?
    Evangeline: (raises head for Aunt Adelaide to see) Evangeline. My name is Evangeline.
    (Aunt Adelaide looks through glasses, Nanny McPhee bangs her stick)
    Great Aunt Adelaide: (chuckles) And what a pretty name it is too.
    Mr. Brown: (disbelief) Evangeline... Oh...
    Mr. Brown: Nanny McPhee...
    Nanny McPhee: Yes, Mr. Brown?
    Mr. Brown: She will be all right, won't she?, Evangeline, I mean.
    Nanny McPhee: I can't help being concerned.
    Mr. Brown: Aunt Adelaide can be so, um... Well, you saw.
    Nanny McPhee: She will certainly be all right.
    Mr. Brown: Good, I suppose she volunteered to go, did she?, couldn't wait to be shot of us, I imagine.
    Nanny McPhee: Not quite. It was Simon's idea. He knew Evangeline might like to educate herself and that her going would save Christianna.
    (cane cracking, music begins playing)
    Evangeline: Oh, Nanny McPhee, I'm so nervous.
    Nanny McPhee: Deep breaths.
    Evangeline: I don't look much like a bride, do I?
    Nanny McPhee: You will.
    (magical breeze fizzes and tinkles)
    Nanny McPhee: How's the reading coming along?
    Evangeline: It's much better. But I still haven't got to the end of the story.
    Nanny McPhee: No need. You are the end of the story.
    (the rattle reappears in one piece and falls on Aggie's lap)
    Nanny McPhee: (narrating) There is something you should understand about the way I work. When you need me, but do not want me, then I must stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go.

## Taglines

* Behave or Beware.
* You'll learn to love her... warts and all.

## Cast

* Emma Thompson as Nanny McPhee
* Colin Firth as Cedric Brown
* Kelly Macdonald as Evangeline
* Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Simon Brown
* Eliza Bennett as Tora Brown
* Jennifer Rae Daykin as Liliana Lily Brown
* Raphaël Coleman as Eric Brown
* Samuel Honywood as Sebastian Brown
* Holly Gibbs as Christianna "Chrissie" Brown
* Hebe and Zinnia Barnes as Aggie Brown
* Angela Lansbury as Great Aunt Adelaide Stitch
* Celia Imrie as Mrs. Selma Quickly
* Imelda Staunton as Mrs. Blatherwick
* Derek Jacobi as Mr. Wheen
* Patrick Barlow as Mr. Jowls
* Adam Godley as the Vicar

## See also

* Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

## External links

* Nanny McPhee quotes at the Internet Movie Database