In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Without so much as severance pay, Miss Pettigrew realizes that she must ⿿ for the first time in two decades ⿿ seize the day. This she does, by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level ⿿ as ⿿social secretary.⿿ Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams).
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