"Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day"

What's not to love? The movie has big band music, transporting scenes of London, an excellent cast: the brilliant Frances McDormand, effervescent and talented Amy Adams (fresh off "Enchanted"), the sweet-faced Julliard boy Lee Pace (from "Pushing Daisies"), and dashing and debonair Ciaran Hinds (if you didn't see him in "Persuasion," you should).

(Look out for the blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance of Shirley Henderson, who plays Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter movies; she's the one who makes over Miss Pettigrew, giving her "a little powder." I recognized her voice before her face; no one can forget Moaning Myrtle's voice!)