It's TV meets 'tweens this week in DVDville, with the release of a batch of shows and a Jonas Brothers Miley Cyrus face-off. But look closer, and a few lower-profile highlights emerge. Ladies' day: ...

The Depression-era Cinderella comedy, "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day," is sporadically enjoyable and always gorgeous to behold -- it's a feast of Art Deco -- but it isn't quite worth a trip to the ...

Capsule reviews of new DVD releases follow. MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY (Universal Studios, ’08) $29.98. 92 minutes. A straitlaced London woman, who can’t maintain a job as a governess, becomes a ...

Dad, you can go to the movies again. It's been a tough season at the multiplex for my father. He's a good man, a retired widower who has experienced the sacrifice, pain and loss that inevitably come ...

For an obscure tale of a virginal London governess who discovers her true calling running interference for a giddy night-club singer, the 1938 English novel Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day has enjoyed ...

Unfairly dismissed from her job as a governess, Guinevere Pettigrew (McDormand) is thrown out on the streets of 1939 London with little hope of finding work again. By chance she stumbles upon a job ...

Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) is a governess with a problem: She can't keep a job. A string of clashes with employers has left her desperate for shelter and scrounging for meals. And it ...

This was shot at the legendary Ealing Studios, but I hesitate to call it a British comedy: its two stars are American, it opened in the U.S. five months before it opened in the UK, and its innocuous ...