"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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[gobi-rex.livejournal.com]

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.

[revdorothyl.livejournal.com]

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.)