Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.
Keeping Mum is a charming British dark comedy elevated significantly by its cast — Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, and Patrick Swayze all deliver engaging performances, with Smith particularly relishing her role as the quietly lethal housekeeper. The plot is a pleasantly macabre family farce that blends domestic dysfunction with serial killing, though it doesn't push the dark comedy genre into genuinely new territory. Cinematography is functional and unremarkable, typical of mid-budget British comedies of the era. The ending ties things up neatly but a little too conveniently, lacking the sharpness the premise promises.