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Keeping Mum
Thinkfilm
MPAA RATING: R for language and some sexual content/nudity
Starring
Rowan Atkinson,
Kristin Scott Thomas,
Maggie Smith,
Patrick Swayze,
Tamsin Egerton,
Toby Parkes,
Liz Smith,
and
Emilia Fox
Walter Goodfellow (Atkinson) is the well-meaning vicar of the parish of Little Wallop. So obsessed with writing the perfect sermon, he's oblivious to his wife Gloria's (Thomas) dalliance with her brash golf instructor Lance (Swayze), has trouble keeping track of his daughter Holly's parade of new boyfriends, and neglects his young son Petey. Enter the charming and discreet new housekeeper Grace (Smith), the answer to the family's prayers. Problems solved only lead to more problems created in this story of good intentions run amok. (ThinkFilm)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
Foreign
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Niall Johnson
Richard Russo (also story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Niall Johnson
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 20, 2007
Theatrical: September 15, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
103 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK |

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80
Variety
Derek Elley
Rather dark, decidedly English and exceedingly well played, Keeping Mum is a neatly crafted black comedy with more than a nod in tone toward the Ealing classic "The Ladykillers."

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A whimsical tale of serial murder in the English countryside, Keeping Mum benefits immensely from the charm and pitch-perfect gravitas of Kristin Scott Thomas.

75
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Dame Maggie is simply delightful (has she ever been less than wonderful?).

75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Director and cowriter Niall Johnson's black comedy falters at the end, but until then it manages to wring gentle humor from murder most well bred.

75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
A giddy black comedy about a homicidal housekeeper in rural England, is a hilarious reminder of that 1944 Frank Capra classic about two old maids whose cellar is cluttered with the bodies of would-be suitors.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The script (by Richard Russo) is solid, the performances are witty and fun, and the movie is a most agreeable way to spend an hour and a half.

75
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
In Keeping Mum, the writers poke gentle, broad fun at the absurdities of English country life and manners while creating a cozy malevolence that's all the more engaging because it lies so far from reality. We know we mustn't murder our loathsome neighbors. But how much fun it is to imagine that we might.

70
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
It’s refreshing to see Dame Maggie in a lighter mode than usual. The role of a genteel psychopath is a piece of lemon tea cake she consumes in one delicate bite.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Amusing dark English comedy produces its share of chuckles.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
She's no Mary Poppins: Maggie Smith is more like a cheery Angel of Death in the light black comedy Keeping Mum, one of those dutifully daft British diddles (complete with Rowan Atkinson as a vicar) that, except for the blunt sex talk, might have been constructed decades ago.

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The movie is another of those harmless and politely made dark comedies that the English seem incapable of doing without.

58
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
Moderately amusing.

58
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Keeping Mum never really gets going, and it inches to the finish line like a narcoleptic turtle.

50
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A British black comedy, saves its best for last -- and God bless Maggie Smith for, well, being Maggie Smith -- but that requires sitting through a frustrating, uneven hour of sluggish preamble.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
The problem with this one may be that it just isn't British enough.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Kate Taylor
Black comedy often asks viewers, in exchange for the hilarity, to suspend their moral objections along with their disbelief...Here, we keep our part of the bargain only to be cheated of our payoff.

40
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Obvious, simplistic, and never funny, Johnson's movie may be useful only as real estate porn--Cornwall and the Isle of Man never looked so super cute.

40
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
Weirdly clueless.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Smith is excellent as the potty Grace, with both Atkinson and Thomas equally fine in their roles. But the fact is plainly seen: The Ealing of yore is gone.

38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Only the architecturally refined bone structure of Kristin Scott Thomas' face rescues Keeping Mum from full-on tedium.

30
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Director Niall Johnson struggles to find the proper tone: the serial murders aren't horrible enough to be funny, and the characters don't respond as if they're horrible at all. As a result the black humor thins into gray fog.

25
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The movie is a premise in search of a comedy. Rather than flesh it out, the filmmakers put familiar glad rags on the skull and bones.


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