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{{quote|''"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."''|'''Nanny McPhee'''}}▼
[[File:200px-Nanny_mcphee_3815.jpg|frame|She ''will'' make you obey.]]
▲{{quote|''"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."''
Cedric Brown is a hard-working widower who can't spend much time with his seven children, so he leaves them in the care of nannies. However, the children are very naughty and have managed, with pride, to scare the past seventeen nannies away. Running out of options, Mr. Brown listens to a mysterious voice's advice to call for a "Nanny McPhee." Nanny McPhee turns out to be a hag-like woman with a crooked cane and a habit of appearing out of nowhere. But there's a secret to her care-taking -- she has [[Magical Nanny|magic powers]], which she uses to teach the children some important lessons. ▼
|'''Nanny McPhee'''}}
▲Cedric Brown is a hard-working widower who can't spend much time with his seven children, so he leaves them in the care of nannies. However, the children are very naughty and have managed, with pride, to scare the past seventeen nannies away. Running out of options, Mr. Brown listens to a mysterious voice's advice to call for a "Nanny McPhee." Nanny McPhee turns out to be a hag-like woman with a crooked cane and a habit of appearing out of nowhere. But there's a secret to her care-taking -- she has [[Magical Nanny|magic powers]], which she uses to teach the children some important lessons.
Naughty children aren't the only problems Mr. Brown has to face. The truth is his late wife's aunt, Lady Adelaide Stitch, is supporting the family through a regular allowance, and she decides that unless Mr. Brown remarries by the end of the month, she will cut off those funds, meaning he will lose his house and his children. It's up to Nanny McPhee to help save a family on the brink of ruin.
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The 2005 movie did well in theaters, and a sequel, ''Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang'' (called ''Nanny McPhee Returns'' in the United States), premiered in 2010. [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]] plays a beleaguered housewife juggling a farm and three children, while awaiting her husband's return from [[World War II|The War]]. With the added pressure of her brother-in-law wanting her to sell off the farm (to pay off his own gambling debts), and two upper-class cousins staying over, Nanny McPhee is needed once again. The trailer can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVOzEmywwMM here].
A third film was planned, but it and other sequels were scrapped due to ''Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang'' under-performing at the box-office.
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* [[Badass]]: Nanny McPhee, to a point. This is a woman who rides in flying motorcycles, maintains order with a magic stick, and receives full attention and salutes from trained army soldiers.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Celia Gray. She can scream for over a half-an-hour and suffer no vocal problems.
* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Played with.
* [[Beauty Inversion]]: spun into a ''plot point'' for Nanny McPhee. {{spoiler|Every time the children learn something, one of her many hideous blemishes
* [[Be Careful What You Say]]: see [[Playing Sick]] below.
** In the sequel, the farm kids refuse to share their beds with the city kids, claiming they'd rather share their beds with the farm's goat and cow. Then the smallest farm kid blurts out "elephant" as his choice, leading up to Nanny McPhee trying to hide a literal [[Elephant in
* [[Berserk Button]]: in the sequel. One of the city kids deliberately takes a jar of jam the farm kids were saving for their [[Disappeared Dad]]. And it breaks. They go justifiably postal.
* [[Blitz Evacuees]]: The cousins from London. {{spoiler|Though that wasn't the only reason...}}
* [[Brick Joke]]: {{spoiler|The baby elephant}} in the sequel.
* [[But Now I Must Go]]: The page quote.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Nanny McPhee herself, for [[wikipedia:Nurse Matilda|Nurse Matilda]]. To be honest, though, ''Nanny McPhee'' started as a faithful adaptation of ''Nurse Matilda''; the character and movie were renamed to avoid confusion with Danny Devito's film ''[[Matilda]]''. However, the sequel moved very firmly into "[[Suggested By]]" territory.
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: From a ''bird'' of all things (in the sequel).
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]s: Mr. Brown's partners at the funeral agency -- Mr. Wheen and Mr. Jowls.
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* [[Continuity Nod]]: In the sequel, {{spoiler|Mrs. Dottie was the youngest Brown child from the previous movie.}}
* [[Cordon Bleugh Chef]]: The chef, specifically when she makes her 'army broth'.
* [[Denied Food
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: the premise of the sequel.
* [[Eek! A Mouse!]]: Faked by Celia in the sequel to keep her aunt from signing Phil's contract to sell the farm.
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* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Implied. Nanny McPhee asks Norman to not lose her stick as the paperwork to replace it is unbelievable.
* [[Phrase Catcher]]: "I did knock." Although it is more like a borrowed (by Simon) [[Catch Phrase]].
* [[Pie in
* [[Playing Sick]]: The children try this on Nanny McPhee, but she doesn't buy it for a second. {{spoiler|And she punishes them for it by making them sick for real and physically unable to get out of their beds. Ouch!}}
** {{spoiler|They also Played Attacked-By-Bees at the wedding. It worked.}}
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* [[Spot of Tea]]
* [[The Stinger]]: At the end of the sequel, {{spoiler|the elephant gets to enjoy the Scratch-o-Matic machine that was designed for the pigs.}}
* [[Suggested By]]: The ''[[wikipedia:Nurse Matilda|Nurse Matilda]]'' books. The first movie is a reasonable adaptation of the first book, but the second film only barely acknowledges the source material.
* [[Time Bomb]]: Of a sort, in the sequel.
* [[Title Drop]]: in the sequel, a war veteran warns Maggie Gyllenhaal and family of the threat of bombings, calling it 'the Big Bang'.
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* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: "LORD LOVE A DUCK!", {{spoiler|said by the priest after the first slice of wedding cake is thrown.}}
* [[Why Waste a Wedding?]]
* [[Wicked Stepmother]]: Averted by Evangeline having a good stepmother. Played straight in that Selma Quidgly would have been a rotten stepmother -- had she actually married Mr. Brown. Subverted by the sweet Evangeline actually being the one becoming the kids' stepmother -- much to everyone's joy.
* [[Wire Dilemma]]: In the sequel film.
* [[The Men in Black|The Woman in Black]]: Nanny makes several comments which broadly hint that she is an employee of some secret part of the British Government -- ''in her role as a [[Magical Nanny]].''
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