Madeline

Madeline is a live-action adaptation of the book series by Ludwig Bemelmans, starring Hatty Jones as the title character, Frances McDormand as Miss Clavel and Nigel Hawthorne as Lord Cucuface aka Lord Covington. The film encompasses the plots of four Madeline books. Madeline attends a boarding school with eleven other girls, where she is the only orphan. Their teacher, Miss Clavel, is a nun. The school, in the home of Lady Covington, faces evicti... more

Madeline is a live-action adaptation of the book series by Ludwig Bemelmans, starring Hatty Jones as the title character, Frances McDormand as Miss Clavel and Nigel Hawthorne as Lord Cucuface aka Lord Covington. The film encompasses the plots of four Madeline books. Madeline attends a boarding school with eleven other girls, where she is the only orphan. Their teacher, Miss Clavel, is a nun. The school, in the home of Lady Covington, faces eviction by Lord Covington following his wife's death. Lord Covington's efforts to sell the property to a series of ambassadorial couples is frustrated by Madeline and the girls and by Pepito, the rowdy son of the neighboring Spanish ambassador. An original plot element involves the attempted kidnapping of Pepito and Madeline. Additionally, the film incorporates a majority of plot lines from the original series books, including Madeline's appendicitis and falling into the Seine River. Filmed in Paris in 1997, the story is set in 1956 (rather than... less