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Keeping Mum (15)

• Consumer Advice: Contains strong language and moderate nudity
• Run time: 1 hour 43 mins

• Genre: Comedy
• Release date: 2nd December 2005

• Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Maggie Smith, Patrick Swayze
• Directed by: Niall Johnson

• Distributor: Entertainment Film Dists

Plot Synopsis

Reverend Walter Goodfellow (Rowan Atkinson) is a bumbling town vicar lives with his wife Gloria (Kristin Scott Thomas) and his two children (Holly who has a new boyfriend every week and Petey who is the whipping boy for the school bullies) in the small English town of Little Wallop. Gloria desperately tries to keep up appearances as the Vicar's wife but she's finding that her children and her hapless husband are just not enough for her any more so she's planning to run off with Lance (Patrick Swayze) her American golf instructor. Totally confused with her life and sick of the barking dog next door, the nosey neighbour across the road, her sexless marriage and Lance's indiscretions - she prays every night for salvation.