Keeping Mum
2005 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
The sleepy English hamlet of Little Wallop is about to receive a rude awakening, as the absent-minded Reverend Walter Goodman (Rowan Atkinson), his dissatisfied wife Gloria (Kristin Scott Thomas), and their two children, Holly and Petey, await the arrival of their new housekeeper, Grace Hawkins (Maggie Smith). Gloria is a woman struggling to cope. Her teenage daughter’s a nymphomaniac, her young son’s the perennial target for the local bullies, and her marriage to Walter has long-since dwindled into monotony. It’s no wonder she’s failing to resist the advances of her handsome, American, lothario of a golf pro, Lance (Patrick Swayze). What this family needs is salvation. And fast. It comes in the form of “Grace Hawkins”, a gentle motherly woman with a smile for everyone and an answer for everything. But Grace is not all she seems...
Direction Niall Johnson
Cast Maggie Smith · Rowan Atkinson · Kristin Scott Thomas · Patrick Swayze · Tamsin Egerton · Toby Parkes · Emilia Fox · Liz Smith · James Booth · Patrick Monckton · Murray McArthur · Vivienne Moore · Rupert Simonian
Soundtrack Dickon Hinchliffe
Screenplay Richard Russo · Niall Johnson
Cinematography Gavin Finney
Original title Keeping Mum
5.9
4K votes (FilmAffinity)
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