Nanny McPhee is a 2005 comedy fantasy film based on the Nurse Matilda character by Christianna Brand. Nanny McPhee Thomas Sangster as Simon Brown, the eldest of the Brown children. Nanny McPhee leaves surreptitiously, in accordance with what she told the children before on her first night: "When you need me, but do not want me, then I must stay. It is believed that she has magical powers and is a bit mysterious. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen. Company Credits Written by Daniel Cudley Plot Summary | Add Synopsis After the financial rationale for the marriage is explained to the children, they realize their mistake; the children appease Mrs. Quickly by confessing they were to blame for ruining her visit. It premiered in the United States on 27 January 2006 with an opening weekend total of $14,503,650 in 1,995 theatres (an average of $7,270 per theatre) ranking at No. 51 of 64 people found this review helpful. Zinnia hasn’t made any more movies since Nanny McPhee, which starred Emma Thompson as the scary nurse with the magical powers. "[2], The film did well at the box office, earning $122,489,822 - $47,144,110 in the United States and $75,345,712 elsewhere. Filming & Production The children have had a series of nannies, whom they have systematically driven out with their bad behaviour and pranks. Technical Specs, See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro, hair artist (as Tamsin Dorling) / makeup artist (as Tamsin Dorling), hair artist (as Pam Haddock) / makeup artist (as Pam Haddock), hair designer (as Peter King) / makeup designer (as Peter King), dental FX design and manufacture (uncredited), post-production supervisor (as Tania Windsor Blunden), executive in charge of production: Working Title, chief supervising plasterer (as Ray Churchouse), art department runner (as William Gordon Grant), dubbing editor (uncredited) / dubbing mixer (uncredited), sound recordist: second unit (uncredited), sound re-recording mixer: preview (uncredited), special effects senior technician (uncredited), senior snow effects technician (uncredited), senior technical director: Framestore CFC, producer: Framestore CFC (as Sarah Micallef), digital environment artist: Framestore CFC, visual effects supervisor: Framestore CFC (as Mike Mcgee), visual effects co-ordinator: Framestore CFC, compositing artist: Framestore CFC (as Sirio Quintivalle), computer graphics supervisor: Framestore CFC, compositing artist: Framestore CFC (as Christine Wong), digital cleanup artist: Framestore CFC (uncredited), scanning and recording manager: Framestore CFC (uncredited), digital lab operator: Framestore CFC (uncredited), render support: Framestore CFC (uncredited), digital cleanup supervisor: Framestore CFC (uncredited), senior compositor: Framestore CFC (uncredited), camera technical director: Framestore CFC (uncredited), data operator: Framestore CFC (uncredited), data operations: Framestore CFC (uncredited), head of render support: Framestore CFC (uncredited), visual effects executive producer: Framestore-CFC (uncredited), digital compositor: Framestore CFC (uncredited), technical assistant: Framestore CFC (uncredited), deputy shoot supervisor: Framestore CFC (uncredited), digital paint & roto artist: Framestore CFC (uncredited), digital paint artist: Framestore CFC (uncredited), technical director: Framestore CFC (uncredited), systems engineer: Framestore CFC (uncredited), daily second assistant camera (uncredited), aerial camera assistant: Wescam (uncredited), animation producer: title sequence (uncredited), animation director: title sequence (uncredited), executive in charge of music: Universal Pictures, assistant music editor / music programmer, assistant production coordinator (as Sam Black), assistant: Tim Bevan, Working Title (as Chloé Dorigan), development executive: Working Title Films, helicopter pilot (as Michael Malric-Smigth), senior legal and business affairs executive: Working Title, head of legal and business affairs: Working Title, legal and business affairs executive: Working Title, production executive: Working Title (as Sarah-Jane Robinson), audio/video systems engineer (uncredited), business and legal affairs assistant (uncredited). Colin Firth is such a lost soul trying to avoid everything and everyone around him. | Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization. It was directed by Kirk Jones, co-produced by StudioCanal, Working Title Films, Three Strange Angels, and Nanny McPhee Productions with music by Patrick Doyle and produced by Lindsay Doran, Tim Bevan, and Eric Fellner. When a massive fire kills their parents, three children are delivered to the custody of cousin and stage actor Count Olaf, who is secretly plotting to steal their parents' vast fortune. Nanny McPhee (2005) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. View production, box office, & company info. Desperate, Cedric turns to vile and frequent widow, Mrs. Selma Quickly. Nanny McPhee is the main character of the Nanny McPhee movies. | Each time the children learn a lesson, one of Nanny McPhee's facial defects magically disappears.