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Keeping Mum is a 2005 British black comedy film co written and directed by Niall Johnson and starring Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith and Patrick Swayze. It was produced by Isle of Man Film, Azure Films and Tusk Productions, and was released in the United Kingdom on 2 December 2005, by Summit Entertainment.
Keeping Mum is filled with black comedy, the majority of it very effective thanks to a clever script and sound performances from the three lead actors.
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- Niall Johnson
- R
- Rowan Atkinson
Niall Johnson's 'Keeping Mom' is a delightful black comedy. Russo and Johnson's innovative screenplay, the pleasant score and the surprising cast and the dark humour is brilliantly put together. At the same time, the characters are very identifiable.
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- Comedy, Crime
- Niall Johnson
- 2006-10-06
Parents need to know that Keeping Mum is a dark British comedy with frequent strong language, violence, and murder. The movie stars Maggie Smith as Grace Hawkins, an elderly housekeeper who goes to extreme lengths to make her family happy.
- Niall Johnson
- Kat Halstead
- Thinkfilm
Dec 1, 2005 · Waking Ned meets Serial Mom in the genial and genuinely funny British black comedy Keeping Mum, about a serial-killing old dear in genteel rural England.
Niall Johnson's 'Keeping Mom' is a delightful black comedy. Russo and Johnson's innovative screenplay, the pleasant score and the surprising cast and the dark humour is brilliantly put together. At the same time, the characters are very identifiable.
Sep 15, 2006 · Sept. 15, 2006. The dark British comedy “Keeping Mum” exudes the comfy familiarity of a vintage episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” stretched into a feature-length film. All that’s missing...
