Keeping Mum
A touching family story, with extra murders. Nanny McPhee or Miss Marple or Mary Poppins as murderesses.
We start on a classic rural family, a Reverend of the Anglican church committed to being the damn best local churchman, even if it’s mostly talking about the fucking Flower Planning Committee.
His wife does something, but that’s unclear. She has been sexless for so long, she finds sustenance in the golf professor, a womaniser American.
Their two kids are also a corker: the nymphomaniac teenager and the bullied child.
Suddenly they hire a new housekeeper and she’s such positive influence that many problems solve themselves. At the same time, weird stuff start to happen around the village, but that’s brushed aside.
That housekeeper is also the woman’s mother, incredibly. She just wanted an holiday to meet her family, before being whisked again to more speeches.
The script is very funny, but the cast elevates it. Rowan Atkinson and Kristin Scott Thomas are the couple, Patrick Swayze as the lecherous golf pro, and Maggie Smith as the housekeeper. Bravo!
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