Rowan Atkinson plays the Reverend Walter Goodfellow, vicar of Little Wallop, who spends all his energies on his sermons, leaving his neglected wife Gloria the opportunity to conduct a somewhat half-hearted affair with her golf pro Lance. But everything changes when the Goodfellows get a new housekeeper, Grace Hawkins who, in her spare time, is a psychopathic serial killer, quite happy to rid her employees of anyone causing them problems... Niall Johnson's delicious black comedy sees the four leads play for well-earned laughs, but unsurprisingly it is Maggie Smith who steals the film.