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Keeping Mum. Image shows from L to R: Lance (Patrick Swayze), Gloria Goodfellow (Kristin Scott Thomas), Reverend Walter Goodfellow (Rowan Atkinson), Grace Hawkins (Maggie Smith). Copyright: Keeping Mum Productions
Keeping Mum

Keeping Mum

  • 2005 film

Black comedy starring Rowan Atkinson & Maggie Smith. A family's sweet new housekeeper solves their problems... but she's a serial killer. Stars Rowan Atkinson, Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Swayze, Tamsin Egerton and more.

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Keeping Mum. Image shows left to right: Grace Hawkins (Maggie Smith), Lance (Patrick Swayze), Gloria Goodfellow (Kristin Scott Thomas), Reverend Walter Goodfellow (Rowan Atkinson)

Key details

Genre
Film
Released
2005
Stars
Rowan Atkinson, Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Swayze, Tamsin Egerton, Toby Parkes, Liz Smith, Emilia Fox and more
Writers
Richard Russo and Niall Johnson
Director
Niall Johnson
Producers
Julia Palau and Matthew Payne
Company

The well-meaning but rather dull Reverend Walter Goodfellow, vicar of Little Wallop, spends all his energies on his sermons. As a result he fails to notice the unsuitability of his daughter's boyfriends, his son is struggling to make any friends at school and his wife conducting a half-hearted affair with her suave golf teacher Lance.

But everything changes when the Goodfellows get a sweet new housekeeper, Grace Hawkins. However, it soon transpires that in her spare time Grace is a psychopathic serial killer, and she is using her 'hobby' to rid the family of those causing them problems!

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Additional details

Tagline
Some family secrets are best kept... buried.
UK certificate
15
Duration
103 minutes
Box office
£1,356,345 in first week
Production
Studio
Picture
Colour

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Broadcast details

Most recent repeats
  • Sunday 14th July 2024 at 9:00pm on C5
  • Thursday 13th February 2014 at 1:50am on C4
  • Wednesday 8th January 2014 at 9:00pm on Film4

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