Synopsis
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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Cast
- Rowan AtkinsonWalter Goodfellow
- Kristin Scott ThomasGloria Goodfellow
- Maggie SmithGrace Hawkins
- Patrick SwayzeLance
- Tamsin EgertonHolly Goodfellow
- Toby ParkesPetey Goodfellow
- Liz SmithMrs. Parker
- Emilia FoxRosie Jones
- James BoothMr. Brown
- Patrick MoncktonBob - Pond Workman
Recommendations
- 80
Variety
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 Post
Dame Maggie is simply delightful (has she ever been less than wonderful?). - 75
TV Guide Magazine
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
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
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. - 70
The New York Times
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. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
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. - 58
The A.V. Club
Keeping Mum never really gets going, and it inches to the finish line like a narcoleptic turtle.
