The Secrets of Nanny McPhee (2015)

The Secrets of Nanny McPhee is a 2015 fantasy comedy film directed by Christopher Nolan, produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Lindsay Doran with music by James Newton Howard and co-produced by StudioCanal, Relativity Media, Working Title Films and Three Strange Angels. It is a direct reboot to the 2005 film Nanny McPhee. It was adapted by Emma Thompson from Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda books. Thompson reprises her role as Nanny McPhee, and the film also stars Ewan McGregor, Sarah Bolger, Max Macmillan, Julie Walters, Judi Dench, Martin Freeman, and Daniel Day Lewis.
The film received positive reviews from critics and it earned $93.2 million on a $35 million budget. It also received a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Performance in a Feature Film. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on October 20th 2015. 
== Synopsis ==
Widower Cedric Brown (Ewan McGregor) hires Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon (Max Macmillan) and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch (Judi Dench), tends to want to send the kids of to a reform school in London while cedric keeps refusing to, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee while she and the kids goes on some magic hijinks while Lady Adelaide keeps trying to get rid of kids buy ruining Cedric's chances to keeps his job at the England. 
== Plot ==
During the events after WW1, in the 1920s, widower undertaker Cedric Brown is the father of seven unruly children—Simon, Tora, Eric, Lily, Sebastian, Christianna "Chrissie" and baby Agatha "Aggie." Cedric is clumsy but loves his children; however, since the death of his wife, has spent little time with them and cannot handle them. The kids tend to reck havoc in their house and mess with their butler and their kitchen maid and love to pull pranks on everyone including their neighbors. The family is financially supported by Cedric's late wife's domineering and short-sighted aunt, Lady Adelaide Stitch, who demands custody over the children and tends to afford him a high fashion job in England if he were to let her take his children custody to a boarding school across London, as she calls the strictest learning society for naughty children, but Cedric does not take her deal and demands her to leave by his butler Bailey but Adelaide doesn't give up on taking the children for herself and has her henchman sabotage Cedric's chances on getting a job at the bank. 
The children have had a series of nannies, whom they have systematically driven out with their bad behaviour and pranks. 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 uneducated but beautiful and 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 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 bank's corrupt new chairman, sends associates to warn Cedric that the company he works for in favor to help his family is tending to reduce the family of poverty unless Cedric can find a job and a wife in under a month. Desperate, Cedric turns to vile and frequent widow, Mrs. Selma Quickly. The children assume from reading fairy tales that all stepmothers are terrible women who treat their stepchildren like slaves; together, they sabotage Mrs. Quickly's visit, and she leaves, angry at Cedric. The same goes for every woman that Cedric goes out with in a funny montage.
== Cast ==
* Emma Thompson as Nanny McPhee
* Ewan McGregor as Cedric Brown
* Sarah Bolger as Evangeline 
* Daniel Day-Lewis as Butler Bailey (the house butler)
* Judi Dench as Great-Aunt Lady Adelaide Stitch
* Max Macmillan as Simon Brown
* Eleanor Worthington Cox as Tora Brown
* Chelsea Dutchin as Lily Brown
* Kit Connor as Eric Brown
* Lilly Aspell as Christianna "Chrissie"
* Yannik Baker as Sebastian Brown
* Olivia Miller as Agatha Brown "Aggie"
* Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Selma Quickly
* Julie Walters as Mrs. Blatherwick (The Cook)
* Maggie Smith as Mrs. Docherty Evans (the owner of the Balloon shop at which Mr. Brown visits).
* Stephen Fry as Mr. Wheen, (one of Cedric's co-workers at the Bank)
* Martin Freeman as Mr. Jowls, (one of Cedric's co-workers at the Bank)
* Charles Dance as Mr. Hugo Banks (Cedric's boss at his job at the bank)
== Production ==
=== Filming Location ===
The village in the film is Hambleden in Buckinghamshire, the farm set and scenes were filmed in Hascombe, near Godalming in Surrey and the War Office scenes, both interior and exterior, were filmed at the University of London, and the motorbike scenes on various London roads. Dunsfold Aerodrome, the location of Top Gear, name Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang as being filmed there, with more filming taking place at Shepperton Studios.
File:Nanny McPhee Filming country (2015).jpg| Hambleden in Buckinghamshire
== Release ==
=== Theatrical ===
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang was theatrically released on 25 May by Universal Pictures (18 May 2015 in the UK)
=== Home Media ===
The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on 19 July 2015. The Secrets of Nanny McPhee, as the film was renamed for the North American market, was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 14 December 2015.
=== Other Media ===
Emma Thomson wrote a novelization of the movie. Thomson narrated its audiobook and included a behind-the-scenes diary. Thomson won the Audie Award for Narration by the Author and was nominated for an Audie Award for Middle Grade Title and a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for her narration.
== Reception ==
Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 75% based on 121 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Emma Thompson's second labor of love with the Nanny McPhee character actually improves on the first, delivering charming family fare with an excellent cast." Metacritic calculated an average score of 52 out of 100 based on 25 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale. The Independent also gave a favourable review, with praise given to the actors and Thompson's script. 
== Gallery ==
File:Nanny McPhee (2015) Clip.jpg|Nanny McPhee Official Trailer #1 (2015) - Emma Thompson, Ewan McGregor Movie HD
File:Nanny McPhee gets hired Clips (2015).jpg|Nanny McPhee (2015) Cedric Hires Nanny McPhee
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