Keeping Mum

 

Keeping Mum

• Director: Niall Johnson
• Based on a book: no
• Cast: Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rowan Atkinson, Patrick Swayze, Tamsin Egerton, Toby Parkes, Liz Smith, Emilia Fox
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Maggie Smith – Downton Abbey, Harry Potter, The Lady in the Van, Hotel Marigold 1&2, My Old Lady, Quartet, From Time to Time, Becoming Jane, Ladies in Lavender, Gosford Park, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Gosford Park, David Copperfield, Tea with Mussolini, The First Wives Club, Richard III, The Sister Act 1&2, A Room with a View, The Quartet, Oh What a Lovely War, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• Kristin Scott Thomas – My Old Lady, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Contre toi, Elle s’appelait Sarah, Nowhere Boy, The Other Boleyn Girl, Il y a longtemps que je t’aime, Keeping Mum, Man to Man, The English Patient, Richard III, A Handful of Dust
• Rowan Atkinson - Mr Bean’s Holiday, Johnny English Reborn, Johnny English, Love Actually, Black Adder, Mr Bean, Four Weddings and a Funeral
• Patrick Swayze – Donnie Darko, Ghost, Dirty Dancing
• Tamsin Egerton – Kick Ass Girls 2 St Trinian’s, Driving Lessons
• Liz Smith – The Magic Flute, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Karaoke, Takin’ over the Asylum
• Emilia Fox - Merlin, The Pianist
• Why? Maggie Smith
• Seen: Once before. Now 9 October 2020      

       Forty some years ago sweet young pregnant Rosemary (Fox) is locked up in a mental hospital for killing her husband and his mistress.

       Today, in Little Wallop, population 57, lives the Goodfellow family: Father (Atkinson), a pastor. Mother (Scott Thomas), exhausted and frustrated. Teenaged daughter (Egerton), growing up fast. Son Petey (Parkes), dealing with bullies. Village life,

       Enter Grace (Smith), the new housekeeper. A murderous Mary Poppins.        

       It’s amusing, clever and entertaining. Smith and Scott Thomas are terrific.

 4* of 5