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Keeping Mum (2005)
Forget the plot holes, enjoy the ride
The story is preposterous, so it's best to ignore it and enjoy the performances from a band of highly skilled professionals on top of their game.
Forget that this is probably the only grand Rectory left in church ownership - or that a vicar whose ex-orphan wife doesn't work can afford to run it AND employ a housekeeper (who would probably be paid more than he earns) AND pay for his wife's golf lessons - or that the wife, who is the sensible rock of the family turns out to be as mad as her mother - as does her daughter. Forget that the inside of the church is a lot smaller than the outside (a reverse TARDIS?).
Forget all that, suspend your disbelief and move into Grimms fairy story land. It's charming, with sharp touches of edge and blackness.