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"Keeping Mum" -- what fun!

posted by [personal profile] revdorothyl at 11:35pm on 30/10/2006 under
I went to see the movie "Keeping Mum" on Saturday, and can HIGHLY recommend it.

It stars Maggie Smith as a "sweet little old vicarage housekeeper" and Rowan Atkinson as a too-serious and rather over-stressed vicar, who seems to run a half-day behind on what's going on with his family. Oh, and Patrick Swayze as the sleaziest-of-the-sleazy American golf pro who's hitting on the vicar's wife.

See this film, if only to see Rowan Atkinson turning in a very sympathetic, yet funny-as-heck, UNDERSTATED performance as the rather vague vicar who has something of an epiphany while working on and delivering a speech on "God's Mysterious Ways".

It's sort of like "Serial Mom" with a British sense of humor and strong vicarage family values.

I haven't had that kind of fun at a movie in far too long.
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posted by [identity profile] gobi-rex.livejournal.com at 06:50am on 31/10/2006
Hi!!! [waves]

Ooh, I've been meaning to catch it when it finally gets to our neck of the woods.

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posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 12:58am on 03/11/2006
You won't be sorry -- it's really well done! Next, I'm debating whether to go see Hugh Jackman in "The Prestige" (finally), or hold out for "The Queen" (Helen Mirren!) to come to town.
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posted by [identity profile] texanfan.livejournal.com at 05:10pm on 31/10/2006
You've seen all these wonderful movies I haven't even heard of. *Goes to look of local art house offerings*

Rowan Atkinson also turned in an understated performance in Love Actually.
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posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 12:57am on 03/11/2006
I'd forgotten about him being in "Love, Actually"! Though I do recall really, really enjoying that movie. Refresh my memory -- who did he play in that, and how was he directly or indirectly involved in one of the forms of love being explored in that film?
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posted by [identity profile] texanfan.livejournal.com at 02:50am on 03/11/2006
He wssn't directly involved in any of the relationships. He was kind of an outside observer, gently nudging. I've heard him described as a guardian angel.
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posted by [identity profile] gobi-rex.livejournal.com at 08:09pm on 04/11/2006
He plays the jewelery salesman who takes his sweet time wrapping the package for nervous Alan Rickman (who's buying it for his secretary).

Hee, I love that movie.
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posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 08:19pm on 04/11/2006
Okay, NOW I remember! Thanks for clearing that up! (And wasn't that an adorable movie? Though I couldn't help but be sad for Laura Linney, when she decided that taking care of her brother would always come first, and I cried for Emma Thompson when she found that Rickman had given her Joni Mitchell CD's, instead of that necklace. But any good movie about love SHOULD include some of the painful effects of good and bad choices.)
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