Keeping Mum

2005
R
1h 39m

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

37K

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Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Swayze, and Maggie Smith in Keeping Mum (2005)

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Dark Comedy Comedy Crime

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.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.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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IMDb RATING

6.8/10

37K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 5 nominations

Trivia
This movie is dedicated to James Booth (Mr. Brown), who died four months before the first release. This was his final movie.

Goofs
The blue Volvo family car parked outside of school has mud on its front-right door, but one minute later it's clean.

Quotes
Gloria Goodfellow: You can't just go 'round killing people just because you don't approve of them!
Grace Hawkins: You know, that's what my doctors used to say. It was the one point we could never agree on.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: The Departed/Open Season/The Guardian/The Last King of Scotland/The Queen/School for Scoundrels/Beerleague (2006)

Soundtracks
Did You Ever Wonder Why?
(2005)
Produced and Written by Dickon Hinchliffe
Sung by Dickon Hinchliffe and Cara Dillon
Guitar: Neil Fraser
Engineered by Philip Bagenal at Eastcote Studios and Mat Bartram at Angel Studios
Mixed by Ian Caple
Published by Keeping Mum Productions Ltd

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7/10

I saw this film recently and I was pleasantly surprised.

I saw this film recently and I was pleasantly surprised. It reminded me of the old Ealing Comedies as it was charming but had a definite sense of delicious wickedness running through it. All of the main characters are funny in their own way particularly Rowan Atkinson and Maggie Smith. It reminded me so much of and Ealing Comedy that after a while I could only see Alec Guinness in drag when Maggie Smith was on screen. Kristin Scott Thomas started out as being being a bit of a female Hugh Grant in Four Weddings and a Funeral and showed that she can be quite funny but towards the end she gets a little unconvincing once some revelations unfold. All in all it has it's minor misgivings and gets a little too silly and unbelievable in places but I'd give it a go.