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Keeping Mum (2005)

Release Date:
Friday, September 15, 2006

MPAA Rating:
R

Rating Reason:
For language and some sexual content/nudity.

Genre:
Comedy

Starring:
Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Dame Maggie Smith, Patrick Swayze

Written By:
Niall Johnson, Richard Russo

Director:
Niall Johnson

Synopsis:
"Keeping Mum" stars Atkinson as an absent-minded vicar of a rural parish who is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's (Thomas) dalliance with her brash golf instructor (Swayze), his daughter's parade of new boyfriends, and his young son's regular trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their charming new housekeeper, Grace (Smith), the answer to the family's prayers: a sweet, grey-haired old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house. One by one, the family members find that Grace is able to solve their problems, but they don't realize that her means are leading to a lot of ends and the population of their sleepy hamlet is rapidly diminishing.

Keeping Mum (2005) | Review

Cleaning the Soul (Bruce)
David Bruce, Webmaster

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Keeping Mum is a reminder to not be so spiritually minded that you are no earthly good.

Rowan Atkinson plays an Anglican vicar (priest) of a rural parish. He is also very absent-minded. He's a good guy with a good heart, but he is so narrowly focused that he fails to notice his wife's (Kristin Scott) inappropriate behavior with her golf instructor (Patrick Swayze). Further, his daughter is amassing boyfriends, and his young son is being regularly tormented by school bullies.

What the family needs is a little saving grace! And it comes in the form of a charming grey-haired housekeeper named, interestingly enough, Grace (Dame Maggie Smith). She has her own distinctive definition of cleaning house –which includes cleaning the souls of those living in the house.

The film takes its own unique turn towards the end. No spoiler.

Spiritual talking points include:
1. The importance of not divorcing one’s spiritual life from the life around us.
2. Being there for others.
3. The need to be salt and light to our world.
4. Cleaning house. That is, our inner soul.


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