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Keeping Mum

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United Kingdom, United States, Isle Of Man · 2005
Rated R · 1h 43m
Director Niall Johnson
Starring Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Patrick Swayze
Genre Comedy

A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.

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Variety by 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

New York Daily News by 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.

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Entertainment Weekly by 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.

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Village Voice by 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.

70

The New York Times by 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.

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