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The Remains of the Day
Diamond in the Rough.
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
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Synopsis
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
More about The Remains of the Day
Cast
Anthony HopkinsJames Stevens
Emma ThompsonMiss Kenton
James FoxLord Darlington
Christopher ReeveJack Lewis
Hugh GrantReginald Cardinal
Peter VaughanWilliam Stevens
Ben ChaplinCharlie, Head Footman
Paula JacobsMrs. Mortimer, the cookCredits
- Directed by
- James Ivory
- Written by
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Kazuo Ishiguro
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $11.5M
- Box office
- $23.2M
Production
Columbia PicturesUnited States- Mike Nichols Productions
- John Calley ProductionsUnited States
- Merchant Ivory ProductionsUnited Kingdom
