The Remains of the Day

• 7.381 Drama
• 1993-11-05
• 134 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Anthony Hopkins (James Stevens) Emma Thompson (Miss Kenton) James Fox (Lord Darlington) Christopher Reeve (Jack Lewis) Hugh Grant (Reginald Cardinal) Peter Vaughan (William Stevens) Ben Chaplin (Charlie, Head Footman) Paula Jacobs (Mrs. Mortimer, the cook) Patrick Godfrey (Spencer) Michael Lonsdale (Dupont D'Ivry)

Director:

James Ivory

Writer:

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala