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Keeping Mum

2005

Niall Johnson

Maggie Smith, Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Swayze ...

5.9

4,690

Comedy The sleepy English hamlet of Little Wallop is about to receive a rude awakening, as the absent-minded Reverend Walter Goodman (Rowan Atkinson), his dissatisfied wife Gloria (Kristin Scott Thomas), and their two children, Holly and Petey, await the arrival of their new housekeeper, Grace Hawkins (Maggie Smith). Gloria is a woman struggling to cope. Her teenage daughter’s a nymphomaniac, her young son’s the perennial target for the local ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"'Keeping Mum' exudes the comfy familiarity of a vintage episode of 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' stretched into a feature-length film"	POS
United Kingdom	Anna Smith Empire	"Despite a likeable cast and bursts of wit, this fails to work its darker comic themes into its picture of flawed-but-loveable rural Britain (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"Like so many of the film's gags, the central sick joke is never anywhere near as funny it should be."	NEU

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