Keeping Mum (2006)

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"Keeping Mum reminded me of the great Alec Guinness/Ealing Studio comedies of the 1950s, especially The Lady Killers. They were always funny, but had a dark ironic edge around every joke. Maggie Smith lives up to that tradition as the quiet, kindly, generous housekeeper with a penchant for murder. It isn’t a rolling on the floor laugh out loud comedy. It is a quieter, more restrained kind of humor and I think it may turn off people who aren’t used to this kind of comedy. But I have to say that I really enjoyed it. Patrick Swayze is perfect as the sleazy golf pro hitting on every woman he sees. Kristin Scott Thomas plays the part of the frustrated housewife whose sensitive son is constantly beat up by the school bullies, and daughter sleeps with any boy with a pulse and a husband who shows no interest in her. The real find in this movie is Rowan Atkinson, who actually acts here. Gone is the disturbing and not funny rubber-faced Mr. Bean. He actually plays a real character ... " [More]

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