Niall Johnson's "Keeping Mum" is one of those rare pleasures that were churned out by the country regularly a decade or so ago, only to stop suddenly.
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09/28/06
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Keeping Mum (2006)
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Reviews Counted:85
Fresh:48
Rotten:37
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: The stellar cast, including Kristin Scott Thomas and Dame Maggie Smith, is certainly an asset, but this black comedy is too uneven.
Theatrical Release:Sep 15, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $1,467,021
Synopsis: KEEPING MUM stars Atkinson as an absent-minded vicar of a rural parish who is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's (Thomas) dalliance with her brash golf... [More]
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Patrick Swayze
Director: Niall Johnson
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Reviews for Keeping Mum
No more than mildly amusing, save for a handful of scenes that hint at what it could have been.
09/22/06
A charmer with a surprisingly effective performancefrom Rowan Atkinson.
09/22/06
Dame Maggie is waggish as a mad housekeeper who finds final solutions to one family's domestic problems, and it's fun to watch swanlike Kristin Scott Thomas pretend to be a frumpy vicar's wife.
09/20/06
Top CriticDirector Niall Johnson and his co-writer, Richard Russo, have shrewd eyes for quaint British mannerisms and keen ears for the eddies of their curious speech patterns.
09/20/06
Top CriticNeighbors like these are deliciously fun to watch in a movie as long as you don't have to live near them in real life.
09/19/06
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.
09/15/06
While the comedy is corny and the storytelling inconsistent, the cast makes it a keeper.
09/15/06
Top CriticDame Maggie is simply delightful (has she ever been less than wonderful?), and she has sparkling backing by Kristin Scott Thomas as Gloria and Rowan Atkinson as the good vicar.
09/15/06
Frothy, good-hearted fun that reminds you of the kind of movies we're always complaining they don't make anymore.
09/15/06
Top CriticSmith and Thomas can do just about anything and this proves it.
09/15/06
a tease, a total sham
09/15/06
An English black comedy about a housekeeper who turns out be quite a miracle-worker in a dysfunctional preacher's family.
09/15/06
Johnson isn't striving for a masterpiece, just something clever, unpredictable and human. Fun, too. And he succeeds.
09/14/06
Top CriticThe dark British comedy Keeping Mum exudes the comfy familiarity of a vintage episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents stretched into a feature-length film.
09/14/06
Top CriticObvious, simplistic, and never funny, Niall Johnson's movie may be useful only as real estate porn -- Cornwall and the Isle of Man never looked so super cute.
09/13/06
Top CriticIn the competition for cinema's worst genre, the Quirky British Comedy About Eccentric Countryfolk Learning Valuable Lessons In Outrageous Circumstances truly has no rival.
09/09/06
Just when I thought I'd bore myself to death, having to tell yet another inquirer that the only must-see comedy of the moment was "Little Miss Sunshine," an almost equally fine option has arisen.
08/10/06
...There’s no artful black comedy here, just an uncomfortable clash between broad provincial humour and a murder plotline.
06/24/06
This slight British comedy stars Rowan Atkinson of Mr Bean fame in a rather large role, instead of the cameos he usually gets to play in big screen movies . . .
04/17/06
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