Keeping Mum
by Niall Johnson
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Actor: Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Patrick Swayze, Rowan Atkinson, Tamsin EgertonDirector: Niall Johnson
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); English (Published), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-02-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Movie Reviews of Keeping Mum
Movie Review: I won't keep mum about this movie.
Summary: 4 Stars
Keeping Mum is a 2005 comedy/crime/thriller/family drama/mystery but first and foremost, a British black comedy at its finest, subtle and the bizarre that stars Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rowan Atkinson, and Patrick Swayze. It is full of surprises, twists, and un-expected revelations. It's got sex, murders, and violence but they are handled in such hilariously proper way that I was amused and entertained all along. Among plenty of surprises, I'd love to mention two first. Rowan Atkinson has turned by the other side of his talent. His vicar Walter Goodfellow is a true good fellow, a nice quiet man who is so overwhelmed by demands of his job that and he fails to recognize some troubling realities in his own family. His wife Gloria (Kristin Scott Thomas) is sexually frustrated, and starts an affair with her American golf instructor (Patrick Swayze) who is also drooling over Gloria and Walter's stunningly beautiful teenage daughter Holy ( In 2007, Tamsin Egerton was voted tenth of the one hundred most beautiful faces in the world, by IndependentCritics.com. - I can't agree more. She was another surprise in the movie). Holy is a bit too eager to explore her sexuality with a new boyfriend every week. The couple's pre-teen son Petye is a target of a group of bullies at school. Enters new housekeeper, amazing Grace Hawkins (Dame Maggie Smith), efficient, charming, and extraordinary loyal to Goodfellows and their wellbeing. She brings with her a huge trunk full of memories and some clothes, and the life in Goodfellow household will never be the same. Grace certainly knows how to take care of the persistent annoying problems and these who cause them.
Maggie Smith is delightful in every single role I've seen her. Her incomparable ability to bring very unique humor, depth, and mannerism into her performances make her deservingly one of the best British actresses in history. Just watch Smith delivering the lines that she makes devilishly funny and incredibly amusing. Smith has been supported by very able cast. The story combines several genres interestingly enough for me to recommend this movie highly. But you have to be a fan of British comedies and British dry black humor and not to be offended by murders and adulteries as the subjects of a comedy.
I did not know anything about the movie until my mom rented it from our local library (I love our library - the source of little known but often very enjoyable movies free of charge) and recommended it to me. It was a very nice surprise - just as it was for the viewers at 2006 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival where Keeping Mum received Film Discovery Jury Award.
Summary of Keeping Mum
KEEPING MUM stars Rowan Atkinson as an absent-minded vicar of a rural parish who is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's (Kristin Scott Thomas) dalliance with her brash golf instructor (Patrick Swayze), his daughter's parade of new boyfriends, and his young son's regular trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their charming new housekeeper, Grace (Maggie Smith), the answer to the family's prayers: a sweet old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house - and a very unusual way of solving problems.Comedy DVD Video
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