Keeping Mum

This being Mother's Day and all, thought it will be the best chance to watch, and review, a movie on moms?

Keeping Mum, boasts some familiar faces like Rowan Atkinson and Patrick Swayze, and that girl who showed up in a few episodes of Coupling...

Naturally, you'll expect some humour. Mr. Bean plays a role he had some experience in, if you count his cameo wedding two of Four Weddings & A Funeral.

But this is also a movie about emotional bonding between three generations of women.

Mr. Bean is the vicar of a small English village. His wife is sexually frustrated. His daughter is not. His son is missing a pair, so he's the only one not having such problems.

And if you have a dysfunctional English family, of course your best course of action is to hire a housekeeper, from out of no where, and without checking any references. Then the housekeeper will repair all the dysfunction either through song, or with their jolly, aged wisdom.

It's a very curious fantasy... I wonder why.

It is later revealed that the wife grew up in an orphanage. Then there's a tearful moment when the housekeeper reveals herself as the long lost mother. And grandmother, mother and daughter find a common ground and bond emotionally.

But there's plenty of light moments for those of us (read: XY carriers) who don't like the Ya-Ya / Travelling Pants stuff.

And there are twists in the movie that makes it truly enjoyable. So don't be discouraged by the Joy Luck Club elements. And if you've got the DVD and not watching it in the cinema, you may even see some 16yr old flesh.