Review of Keeping Mum (2005) by Craig S — 04 Dec 2007
Directed by: Niall Johnson.
Starring: Maggie Smith, Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Swayze.
As always, British comedy shines through as one of the best you can get and this film does what any British comedy does best and that is to draw you into its world and its characters and make you laugh endlessly.
The story follows a small family in a small town who all have there own little problems, until one day, a very quirky, charming and very mysterious women turns up and changes there lives forever. Theres more to it than that but I won't ruin it for you. Crafty plotting, brilliant humour and sharp dialogue, it focuses on the characteristics of these charming characters and draws its humour from that. Maggie Smith is very much the highlight of this film, in a very different role but one of her best in many years, quirky, funny and charming, a very powerful actress in any role she tackles.
This film is extremely overlooked and it shouldn't be, it is British comedy at its best in years, charming, funny, quirky, mysterious, thrilling and with a twist that came as one hell of a surprise to me, it needs to be seen.
This review of Keeping Mum (2005) was written by Craig S on 04 Dec 2007.
Keeping Mum has generally received positive reviews.
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