Keeping mum - 2005

Strange thing, funny at moments, with Maggie Smith (always great) but a disappointing ending.
Young Rosie (Emilia Fox) killed her husband because he cheated on her. Now an old woman, she finds her daughter Gloria (who knows nothing about her, not even that she's her mother) and Rosie goes there 'to help her', disguised as housekeeper Grace (Maggie Smith).
Reverend Walter Goodfellow (Rowan Atkinson) only thinks of his sermons, the daughter is a nymphomaniac apparently (says her mom), the son gets bullied by other boys, Gloria (Kristin Scott Thomas) is having an affair with Lance (Patrick Swayze), a perv who also like Holly, her daughter.
Grace kills the neighbor's dog so Gloria can finally sleep and rest (the dog always kept her awake barking all night long); she kills the neighbor himself because he saw her burying the dog ( I think). She kills Lance after he videotaped Holly undressing.
She helps the reverend with his sermon, suggesting the use of jokes; she helps their marriage suggesting sex-related readings in the Bible; she helps the boy by breaking the bullies bikes to that brakes don't work and they fall and get hurt and she has him believe he caused it by wishing it.
In a way she is helping them :-p until they find out about her from the tv and confront her, and they learn all the truth. Only the women, that is. The two males of the family still know nothing.
Grace goes away, but they keep in touch. Gloria writes to her, and at the end she herself kills two men that wanted to drain the little lake where Grace had put the bodies. It can be considered a funny ending in a way, or a silly one if considering that someone else must know about the draining-project and someone must know they went there to do it and all that kind of things.
Still, the film was fun enough, the women were very good, all of them, and the men too :-p

Gloria: you can't go 'round killing people just because you don't approve of them
Grace: that's what my doctors used to say. It was the one point we could never agree on

There a moment when Grace and the reverend talk about the 'song of Solomon': she says it's about sex and he says it's 'beetween a devout man and God', then we hear it and come on! what man and god, the thing he read doesn't make you think of God!!  (I'm talking of the words he said in the film, because I don't know this thing)


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