Keeping Mum

A really black and entertaining comedy. Great acting performance especially from Maggie Smith, Patrick Swayze (Side character) and Tasmin Egerton. If you like humor very black / british than this is a must see movie. You will not stop laughing for a wile and that is the only thing that matters.

A delightfully dark and hilariously charming British comedy that delivers brilliant performances and pure wicked fun.2008 (4.0)Directed by Niall Johnson, "Keeping Mum" (2005) is a wonderfully dark British black comedy that balances subtle domestic absurdity with sly, macabre humor. The story revolves around the well-meaning but hopelessly distracted Reverend Walter Goodfellow, who is so consumed with crafting the perfect sermon that he remains completely oblivious to his family's chaotic personal lives. His wife Gloria is contemplating an affair with her sleazy golf instructor, his teenage daughter Holly is rapidly cycling through older boyfriends, and his young son Petey is being relentlessly bullied at school. Everything changes when Grace Hawkins, an elderly, charming new housekeeper, arrives at their vicarage with a mysterious past and a very peculiar, lethal approach to solving the family's problems. Starring Rowan Atkinson as the bumbling Reverend, Maggie Smith as the delightfully murderous Grace, and Kristin Scott Thomas as Gloria, the film sparkles with razor-sharp wit and fantastic comedic timing. Showing this movie to my younger sibling was an absolute roaring success—sitting them down to watch it turned out to be a brilliant choice, and they ended up loving it just as much as I did! The storyline unfolds with such a ridiculously cute, charming, and deliciously dark rhythm, while Rowan Atkinson's performance is nothing short of legendary and utterly fantastic. Viewing this in 2013 was a memorable and thoroughly entertaining experience that brought genuine laughs from start to finish.