It's taken Kirk Jones seven years to make his follow-up movie to 1998 hit Waking Ned. He's not been idle in the meantime, however, directing numerous advertisements for the Tomboy Films company he owns with partner Glynis Murray. Now he's back with another hit, Nanny McPhee, in which Emma Thompson's eponymous nanny tames a group of uncontrollable children.

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