Keeping Mum, starring Rowan Atkinson

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Keeping Mum - Rowan Atkinson - Kristin Scott Thomas - Maggie Smith and Patrick Swayze - some family secrets are best kept buried

Product Description of Keeping Mum (2005) starring Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Patrick Swayze

Keeping Mum stars Rowan Atkinson as an absent-minded vicar of a rural parish who is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife’s (Kristin Scott Thomas) dalliance with her brash golf instructor (Patrick Swayze), his daughter’s parade of new boyfriends, and his young son’s regular trouncing by the school’s bullies. Enter their charming new housekeeper, Grace (Maggie Smith), the answer to the family’s prayers: a sweet old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house – and a very unusual way of solving problems.

Funny movie quotes from Keeping Mum (2005) starring Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith

Gloria Goodfellow (Kristin Scott Thomas): You can’t just go ‘round killing people just because you don’t approve of them!
Grace Hawkins (Maggie Smith): You know, that’s what my doctors used to say. It was the one point we could never agree on.

Holly Goodfellow: [Holly opens the video camera to find Lance had filmed her undressing] I’ll kill him!
Grace Hawkins (Maggie Smith): Oh, that won’t be necessary dear.

Grace Hawkins (Maggie Smith): Oh, so you know about the other bodies!
Gloria Goodfellow (Kristin Scott Thomas): What other bodies?
Grace Hawkins (Maggie Smith): Oh. You didn’t know about the other bodies…
Gloria Goodfellow (Kristin Scott Thomas): WHAT other bodies?
Grace Hawkins (Maggie Smith): Oh, just Mr. Brown’s dog. And… and Mr. Brown.
Gloria Goodfellow (Kristin Scott Thomas): You killed them too?
Grace Hawkins (Maggie Smith): I did it for you dear.

Grace Hawkins (Maggie Smith): You know, men do sometimes lose their way dear. I mean, Walter is a sweet soul, but he’s a bit slow-witted like the rest of them.
Gloria Goodfellow (Kristin Scott Thomas): So you were married too?
Grace Hawkins (Maggie Smith): Yes I was. A long time ago.
Gloria Goodfellow (Kristin Scott Thomas): Did he lose his way?
Grace Hawkins (Maggie Smith): With a little help from another woman.
Gloria Goodfellow (Kristin Scott Thomas): Ohh…
Grace Hawkins (Maggie Smith): Completely lost his head over her.