Waking Ned Devine

Waking Ned Devine

Tomboy Films etc.

15 September 1998

Comedy

DVD
B-

I saw this in the theater and enjoyed it, and it holds up pretty well at home a quarter century later.  The story is slight and it's never hilarious, but I liked spending time in the tiny village with the gorgeous scenery and the oddball residents.  Kirk Jones wrote and directed, seven years before Nanny McPhee.

Nanny McPhee

Nanny McPhee

MGM etc.

21 October 2005

Children's, Historical Comedy, Fantasy

DVD
C-

I remember watching, or at least trying to watch this years ago and I definitely got past the quarter hour I gave it today.  I just wasn't invested in this meaner version of Mary Poppins.  Emma Thompson not only stars as the title character but adapted Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda books.  Kirk Jones directed.