Keeping Mum

Keeping Mum (2005) is a pitch-black British comedy you can watch online on iFILM. In the sleepy village of Little Wallop, vicar Walter Goodfellow is so buried in writing the perfect sermon that he misses his own family quietly falling apart.

His wife Gloria (Kristin Scott Thomas) drifts toward a brash American golf pro (Patrick Swayze), his teenage daughter cycles through unsuitable boyfriends, and his young son is being bullied. Enter Grace, the new housekeeper: an elderly, soft-spoken, impeccably polite woman played by Maggie Smith. She sorts the household out fast, except her methods run far darker than her manners suggest, and fresh flower beds keep appearing in the garden. Rowan Atkinson plays the oblivious vicar with almost none of his usual mugging.

Director Niall Johnson serves up a cozy English farce where murder arrives in the same tone as tea and scones. Made for fans of dry British wit with a calm menace under the smile. Stream Keeping Mum (2005) online on iFILM.