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 enlarge | Director: Niall Johnson
Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Patrick Swayze, Tamsin Egerton
Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Category: DVD
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Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 1747
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Published)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 104
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: TF-54975
UPC: 821575549752
EAN: 0821575549752
ASIN: B000K7VHQY
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: February 20, 2007
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 Amazing Grace March 29, 2008
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
The Goodfellow family needs more than just a housekeeper. They need a miracle.
What they got was Grace.
When Grace (Maggie Smith) arrives, she finds Gloria (Scott Thomas) somewhere between an affair and going crazy. Golf Pro Lance (Swayze) is encouraging her to swing more than a club. Clarence, the little dog next door has been yelling nonstop for days and the deaf old man who owns him, can't hear and doesn't seem to care. Walter (Atkinson) her vicar husband, has forgotten there's romance in the "Bible" and he's so lost in his tending his congregation, he's even lost his sense of humor. Teenaged Polly (Egerton) is experimenting with sex--and not for the first time. Peter (Parkes) is getting beaten up by the school bullies.
Grace quickly sets to work setting things to rights. On the surface, she's quite an endearing old lady who soothes with a cup of tea and a magic word, but her methods run far deeper than that--just don't look in the nearby pond!
If you love British comedy, particularly the darker varieties thereof, you're going to enjoy "Keeping Mum." There's more than one surprise twist. Of particular interest is a golf lesson between Lance and Gloria just filled with double entendre.
"Keeping Mum" February 15, 2008
My husband saw this movie on television while recovering from knee surgery. The next time it came on he told me I should watch it. I am so glad I did. One funny situation after another. The cast fit so well together. I couldn't believe Patrick Swayze was in this type of movie. He was great! We ended up buying the DVD because there are many twists and turns. We wanted to make sure we didn't miss anything. A mystery? A comedy? A love story? A perfect blend. Just like the cast.
 A Bit Predictable, But Overall Good Movie.... January 25, 2008
I must admit with another reviewer that this movie is a cross between Mary Poppins and Arsenic & Old Lace---- though with a modern twist!!
Be prepared to laugh throughout this movie as the characters themselves are outrageous & very well acted by cast members: Patrick Swayze plays the perfect sleazy golf pro, Kristin Scott Thomas plays the perfect part as the bored housewife to a small town vicar and is not a goodie two shoes, nor is she the ideally suited wife one would expect from a vicar's wife, and of course has kids out of control!! And who can forget Maggie Sweet as the star of the show!! Sweet's character comes across as a gentle Mary Poppins type on the surface, but beware of what is just below the surface!
Funny must see movie, if you enjoy British comedy & dark humor!!
 So wrong, but oh so funny. January 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This isn't really the type of movie we would normally pick up while browsing at the video store. My husband caught bits and pieces of this movie last week while on a business trip, so we decided to rent it to see the whole thing. It is definitely a dark comedy worth seeing. Some other reviews did a great job of describing it. It's like Mary Poppins kicked up a notch (a naughty notch, but a notch none the less).
Normally, I find British comedy to be a bit on the on the slow side, but this movie seemed to flow okay. I enjoyed all the actors and actresses (I'm even interested in seeing a "Mr Bean" film now). I was surprised to see Patrick Swayze, though, since he is American. It's funny, in "Dirty Dancing" he was a dance gigalo; in this move he's a golf gigolo.
Yes, while watching, you will often shake your head and say "this is so wrong", BUT you will do it while laughing.
Enjoy.
Mary Poppins meets Arsenic and Old Lace January 21, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
"Keeping Mum" is a dark British comedy that enchanted us last night. Justice seems to have eluded the wrong doers -- in fact there are suggestions that genetics will work its magic in the future. It reminded us of the classic Hitchcock episode "Lamb to the Slaughter" where the murderess serves a leg of lamb to the police who can't find the murder weapon.
Maggie Smith plays Grace Hawkins, an aging Mary Poppins, who arrives in Little Wallop, population 57, and is soon setting things right, as it were, with direct action. She has plenty to work with at her adopted family.
Rowan Atkinson plays Walter Goodfellow, a stuffy, pious vicar. Gloria (Kristin Scott Thomas) is frustrated and negotiating with Lance (Patrick Swayze) to run away with him to Australia. Holly (Tamsin Egerton) is on the verge of running wild, and Petey (Toby Parkes) is the target of school bullies.
A noisy dog disappears, three bicycles collapse, the vicar smolders after being taught the true meaning of the "Song of Solomon" -- one of the best and most erotic renderings of that Book I've seen, Gloria is entranced and reciprocates, sermons improve with jokes downloaded from the Internet, Grace dumps the over-acted Lance, and Holly bonds with Grace and her mother.
An enormous trunk is the key clue that ties events together. It appears in the beginning of the film leaking blood in a baggage compartment of a train. 40 years later the same trunk arrives in Little Wallop containing Grace's belongings.
There are amusing touches throughout this dark fairy tale. We both thoroughly enjoyed watching this problem solving psychopath in action.
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