"Keeping Mum" -- what fun!

[revdorothyl]

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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[revdorothyl.livejournal.com]

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.