British funny movie, starring the hilarious Rowan Atkinson and also Patric Swayze.
Released January 2006.
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...
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Mum is the Word for Rowan Atkinson
By James Wray
UK comedian Rowan Atkinson has signed up for his first leading role in several years, as a village vicar in rural British comedy "Keeping Mum."
Variety reports Atkinson will play a pastor so obsessed with writing the perfect sermon that he doesn't notice his wife's infidelity or the adolescent escapades of his kids.
Kristin Scott-Thomas plays the spouse, and Patrick Swayze the brash golf instructor with whom she dallies. Maggie Smith plays the discreet housekeeper who decides to take the situation in hand and rid the town of its dirty secrets.
The $17 million movie is being directed and co-written by Niall Johnson, who previously wrote the Michael Keaton hit thriller "White Noise", a UK/Canada co-production.
Johnson describes "Keeping Mum", which starts shooting February 4 in Cornwall and the Isle of Man, as "a blackly comic spin on the Mary Poppins story." The original script is by screenwriter Richard Russo (Nobody's Fool).
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Released January 2006.
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...
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Mum is the Word for Rowan Atkinson
By James Wray
UK comedian Rowan Atkinson has signed up for his first leading role in several years, as a village vicar in rural British comedy "Keeping Mum."
Variety reports Atkinson will play a pastor so obsessed with writing the perfect sermon that he doesn't notice his wife's infidelity or the adolescent escapades of his kids.
Kristin Scott-Thomas plays the spouse, and Patrick Swayze the brash golf instructor with whom she dallies. Maggie Smith plays the discreet housekeeper who decides to take the situation in hand and rid the town of its dirty secrets.
The $17 million movie is being directed and co-written by Niall Johnson, who previously wrote the Michael Keaton hit thriller "White Noise", a UK/Canada co-production.
Johnson describes "Keeping Mum", which starts shooting February 4 in Cornwall and the Isle of Man, as "a blackly comic spin on the Mary Poppins story." The original script is by screenwriter Richard Russo (Nobody's Fool).
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