Keeping Mum DVD Report

Keeping Mum is a 2005 British black comedy film starring Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Maggie Smith.

In the opening scene, a pregnant young lady called Rosie Jones (Emilia Fox) is traveling by train and her very large trunk starts leaking blood. When questioned by the police, she calmly reveals that the two dismembered bodies inside are of her unfaithful husband and his mistress. She is then sentenced by the judge (Roger Hammond) to a secure unit for the criminally insane.

Forty-three years later, in the village of Little Wallop, Walter Goodfellow, the vicar (Rowan Atkinson) is very busy writing the perfect sermon for a conference, having no idea about the problems in his house, which include the unfulfilled sexual needs of his wife Gloria (Kristin Scott Thomas) who subsequently has an affair with her golf instructor, Lance (Patrick Swayze), the rebellious nature of his daughter Holly (Tamsin Egerton) who frequently has a new boyfriend and son Petey (Toby Parkes) who is bullied by schoolmates led by Billy Martin. Then everything changes with the arrival of the new housekeeper Grace (Maggie Smith).

To start off with Keeping Mum was very much like life in Little Wallop, slooooooow, I almost turned it off, then I realised I had been watching it for an hour! This is a gem of a movie, Rowan Atkinson even manages to make reading from the bible sound erotic (SERIOUSLY!) it has to be seen! Its a British Comedy in all ways, English village, all the stars are great and its very funny! Watch it if you can! And a bonus, I paid 50p for it from a car boot lol!

Here is the trailer...