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The stellar cast, including Kristin Scott Thomas and Dame Maggie Smith, is certainly an asset, but this black comedy is too uneven.
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A dark comedy that isn't dark or particularly funny, Keeping Mum ends up being an exercise in heavy-handed whimsy. Oct 26, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/5
A dark comedy that isn't dark or particularly funny, Keeping Mum ends up being an exercise in heavy-handed whimsy.
Randy Cordova
A meek little diversion, nothing more. Oct 20, 2006 | Rating: 2/5
A meek little diversion, nothing more.
Roger Moore
A modest comedy that wants to be both dark and reassuring at the same time. Oct 13, 2006 | Rating: C+
A modest comedy that wants to be both dark and reassuring at the same time.
Robert Denerstein
Bracket out the ethical concerns of making merry as the body count mysteriously rises and Keeping Mum is an endearing hoot. Oct 13, 2006 | Rating: 3/4
Bracket out the ethical concerns of making merry as the body count mysteriously rises and Keeping Mum is an endearing hoot.
Lisa Kennedy
It's probably one of the funniest films to come out of England in years. Oct 9, 2006
It's probably one of the funniest films to come out of England in years.
Richard Roeper
Cheerfully black-hearted and unfailingly amusing. Oct 5, 2006 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Cheerfully black-hearted and unfailingly amusing.
Connie Ogle
Don't expect Rowan Atkinson in full Bean or Blackadder flight: this is much more delicate Country Life comeuppance at the hands of a deliciously dark fairy godmother. Jul 30, 2009 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Don't expect Rowan Atkinson in full Bean or Blackadder flight: this is much more delicate Country Life comeuppance at the hands of a deliciously dark fairy godmother.
Simon Weaving
Rowan Atkinson ("Mr. Bean") plays straight-man Reverend Walter Goodfellow to Grace Hawkins (acted with keen wit by Maggie Smith) his genteel serial-killer housekeeper in this delicious British black comedy. Apr 20, 2009 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Rowan Atkinson ("Mr. Bean") plays straight-man Reverend Walter Goodfellow to Grace Hawkins (acted with keen wit by Maggie Smith) his genteel serial-killer housekeeper in this delicious British black comedy.
Cole Smithey
An insufferable British dark comedy in the tradition of other happy-horseshit classics Aug 7, 2007 | Rating: 0.5/4 | Full Review…
An insufferable British dark comedy in the tradition of other happy-horseshit classics
Walter Chaw
The problem with Keeping Mum is that the slaughter is very real and, worse, the victims are often innocent or otherwise undeserving of their fate. Mar 1, 2007 | Full Review…
The problem with Keeping Mum is that the slaughter is very real and, worse, the victims are often innocent or otherwise undeserving of their fate.
Maria Garcia
I would have loved for these characters to have a different plot to stretch out in. However, this story is obvious, pedestrian, warm and pleasant, but mostly a tragic waste of some tremendous resources. Jan 31, 2007 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
I would have loved for these characters to have a different plot to stretch out in. However, this story is obvious, pedestrian, warm and pleasant, but mostly a tragic waste of some tremendous resources.
Karina Montgomery
It has all the edge, darkness and wit one expects from the storied genre of British dark comedy. Jan 19, 2007 | Rating: B | Full Review…
It has all the edge, darkness and wit one expects from the storied genre of British dark comedy.
Robert Roten
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i love this movie, i find it so funny and its the best british comedy of the year!! i love the cast and i love the story its thoroughly entertaining!! Maggie smith plays a murderer who has gotten out of prison/mental facility and has come to visit her daughter but without literally telling her daughter so shes come as a guest to look after the children! its a really good movie and is completely worth the watch!!
Highly entertaining, good British black comedy. Rowan Atkinson, Maggie Smith, Kirstin Scott Thomas and the rest of the cast are perfect. This is the most understated I have ever seen Atkinson, and marks an interesting evolution for him. Smith is absolutely superb as the straight actress playing the clowning criminal.
British black comedy. Funny seeing Rowan Atkinson in a non-Mr. Bean character. I watched this film a second time and quite enjoyed it. I don't know if I caught the very last scene under the duck pond the first time I saw it.
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