The defence The Popcorn Loyalist
“It owes the canon nothing.”
The movie pursues immediacy and audience pleasure without begging institutions to certify its worth.
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Keeping Mum
Comedy · 2005
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.
Movie details
Keeping Mum
“Some family secrets are best kept...buried.”
2005 Comedy 1h 43m
Critical arithmetic
The consensus, allegedly.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
IMDb
6.8 / 10
37.3K votes
Rotten Tomatoes
57 %
Tomatometer
Metacritic
53 / 100
Metascore
TMDB
6.7 / 10
Community rating
External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.
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.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over Keeping Mum?
For the defence
The Popcorn Loyalist
“Big screen, big feelings, no apologies.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Cool Ironist
“Feeling things is a little embarrassing.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Names above the title
The people responsible.
Cast & crew
Directed by
Niall Johnson
Written by
Richard Russo · Niall Johnson
Rowan Atkinson
Walter Goodfellow
Kristin Scott Thomas
Gloria Goodfellow
Maggie Smith
Grace Hawkins
Patrick Swayze
Lance
Tamsin Egerton
Holly Goodfellow
Toby Parkes
Petey Goodfellow
Liz Smith
Mrs. Parker
Court is in session
Put Keeping Mum on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Cool Ironist
“Easy pleasure, short half-life.”
It moves efficiently through the moment but offers little reason to keep arguing once the credits end.