| Keeping Mum |  | Director: Niall Johnson
Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Patrick Swayze, Tamsin Egerton
Category: DVD
Buy New: $29.23
Rating:  69 reviews
Sales Rank: 185876
Format: Ntsc
Rating: R (Restricted)
ASIN: B00005JP9I
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 Simply Delightful! June 28, 2009
Baazumi (New York City, NY)
What an unexpected surprise! I read a brief description of this film somewhere and added it to my Netflix list - needless to say we were delighted and surpised by this sleeper film. A nice, slowly pased English comedy staring Maggie Smith and Kristen Scott Thomas, 5*****!
 I won't keep mum about this movie. May 5, 2009
Galina (Virginia, USA)
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.
A must see movie!!! May 3, 2009
C. VANDERBENT
What can I say...though this is clearly somewhat dark humor, this movie is packed with great performances. It is funny and poignant. I loved it!
keeping mum April 21, 2009
J. A. Reid (Australia)
What a delight - wonderful entertainment with Maggie Smith at her best - Rowan Atkinson brilliant as the absent minded pastor - Patrick Swayze perfect cad - Kristen Scott Thomas an equal match to all - good hearted black comedy and a brilliant final scene.
Keeping Mum, worth the time. April 16, 2009
GI Jack (Florida)
Brilliant acting from a talented cast. This is a movie that requires you to pay attention to the dialog, not the special effects. Its the story of an English Village "Vicar" (Anglican Priest) who is very self absorbed and timid. He doesn't notice that his parishners walk all over him and his household is falling apart around him. His wife is contemplating an affair, his daughter is as randy as a rabbit with fertility shots, and his youngest son is being maliciously bullied by boys at his school. The wife is at her "wits end" and hires a nanny... Things get interesting as the new "domestic" has very unique solutions to the problems in the household "in her charge". If you liked "Waking Ned Devine" or "Second Hand Lions", you should enjoy this movie also.
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