Keeping Mum

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steve d Not remotely fun or interesting. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review celine m Can't think of a better combination than Rowan Atkinson and Maggie Smith. Absolutely hilarious. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review dave s Kristin Scott Thomas and Rowan Atkinson star as the parents of the Goodfellow family, a typical nuclear family living in an English village and trying to come to terms with a variety of family issues. When Grace (Maggie Smith), a woman with a murderous past, shows up as the new housekeeper, the problems experienced by the family mysteriously and permanently disappear. Keeping Mum is filled with black comedy, the majority of it very effective thanks to a clever script and sound performances from the three lead actors. Despite a music score that sounds like it from a sitcom and the fact that it feels like it's slipping into slapstick towards the end, it's a pretty enjoyable film with a surprising and enjoyable twist in the final act. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Very good: Plot, Acting and Characters, Score, Pace, Dialogue. Good: Themes and Tones, Direction, Produciton Design, Special Effects, Editng. Fair: Cinematography. Poor: x Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member A family that's lost its spark gets a new housekeeper, and she's got a history! The humor is delightfully witty, as it should be from a British movie, and the acting is a bit understated, which is a good thing! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member *Spoilers ahead* Watched this over Christmas and New Year with the family. Some funny parts throughout but ultimately a middle-of-the-road British comedy. For a little-known British comedy, the cast is excellent. Rowan Atkinson is an undeniable comedic genius and plays Reverend Goodfellow with the right amount of uncertainty and bumble we are so used to seeing from him. As his character starts to turn to humour in his sermons (many jokes taken from the aptly named website 'God Jokes'), his enthusiasm for life increases tenfold, leading to an injection of spice into his previously sexless marriage His sex-starved wife, Gloria, played by the always excellent Kristen Scott Thomas, is the star of the show. She effortlessly blends together wittiness and exasperation, be it at her husband for the lack of intimacy or at her sex-crazed, rebellious daughter (played well by Tamsin Egerton) for the litany of unsuitable boyfriends she brings to their home. She is responsible for the funniest part of the film as well. As Gloria prepares to finally sleep with her greasy, orange, muscular golf instructor Lance (Patrick Swayze), after weeks of sexual tension, she is mortified when he reveals a large burgundy jock strap. Her reaction is as British as you could get. A very humourous scene. Grace (Maggie Smith), the mysterious housekeeper with the big secret, disappoints for me. Maybe it just was not different enough to a standard Maggie Smith performance (I know I'm in the minority here). Her mischievousness is fun, but her punishments are very disproportionate to the "crimes" committed by those in Little Wallop and I know it's fiction, but would you not conduct any sort of check on a housekeeper that is going to look after your two under-18 children? Even a pretty good look at a CV? Pretty shoddy due diligence if you ask me. I also find Swayze's performance to be quite cliched. This is not his fault, he's asked to basically accentuate all the stereotypical traits that people do not like about America (seen with his vanity, overly white teeth, overly loquaciousness, arrogance). To be fair to Swayze, I do find that American movies do the the same with Brits (why is every Brit obscenely posh?) He's not unfunny, but I felt he could have been a little less sterotypical. There could have been more scenes with the Goodfellow family all together, especially with Rowan Atkinson and Tamsin Egerton, I feel like their relationship dynamic was not explored enough and this could have led to some pretty funny scenes. Overall, a decent film that's inoffensive enough to please all members of the family, but is firmly planted in the lower echelons of British comedy. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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