Keeping Mum - Wednesday Night Movies & TV

Walter Goodfellow (Rowan Atkinson), the vicar for the small English country parish of Little Wallop, has let his marriage to Gloria (Kristin Scott Thomas) go stale, and he is so detached from his family that he has not taken notice that his seventeen-year-old daughter Holly (Tamsin Egerton) is going through a succession of relationships with unsuitable boyfriends, and his son Petey (Toby Parkes) fears going to school, owing to being bullied. Out of desperation for affection, Gloria begins to fall for the advances of Lance (Patrick Swayze), an American golf pro who is giving her "private" lessons. The problems upsetting the family start to fade away after Grace Hawkins (Dame Maggie Smith), the new housekeeper, arrives and starts tending to matters as an older, and rather darkly mysterious version of Mary Poppins (1964).

Rowan Atkinson - Walter Goodfellow
Kristin Scott Thomas - Gloria Goodfellow
Maggie Smith - Grace Hawkins
Patrick Swayze - Lance
Tamsin Egerton - Holly Goodfellow
Toby Parkes - Petey Goodfellow
Liz Smith - Mrs. Parker
Emilia Fox - Rosie Jones
James Booth - Mr. Brown