Movie Review

Keeping Mum (2006)

Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Sep 20, 2006

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

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EW's GRADE

B-

Details Limited Release: Sep 15, 2006; Rated: R; Length: 90 Minutes; Genre: Comedy; With: Rowan Atkinson and Maggie Smith

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MR. TEE Swayze is the randy American golf pro looking to cart off with the vicar's wife in the British black comedy Keeping Mum

She's no Mary Poppins: Maggie Smith is more like a cheery Angel of Death in the light black comedy Keeping Mum, one of those dutifully daft British diddles (complete with Rowan Atkinson as a vicar) that, except for the blunt sex talk, might have been constructed decades ago. Dame Maggie is waggish as a mad housekeeper who finds final solutions to one family's domestic problems, and it's fun to watch swanlike Kristin Scott Thomas pretend to be a frumpy vicar's wife. As a lecherous American golf pro, Patrick Swayze flashes sculpted abs — because he can.

Originally posted Sep 20, 2006 Published in issue #899 Sep 29, 2006 Order article reprints

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