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[[File:200px-Nanny_mcphee_3815.jpg|frame|She ''will'' make you obey.]]
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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* [[Denied Food as Punishment]]: Mr. Brown tries this on the children, but it doesn't work.
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: the premise of the sequel.
* [[Eek!
* [[Expy]]: Nanny McPhee is [[Mary Poppins]]. Only more interesting.
* [[Fake Brit]]: Maggie Gyllenhall proudly takes her place on the list of "American actors who can actually do a convincing English accent".
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* [[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.}}
** Revisited in the sequel, {{spoiler|involving a [[Eek!
* [[Rags to Riches]]: {{spoiler|Evangeline, who gets taken in by Aunt Adelaide in place of one of the children.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Really 700 Years Old]]: If the fact that she's the same in both movies despite a possible time difference of ''60 years'' is any indication.}}
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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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