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Release Date: 1993

Cast: Ben Chaplin, Patrick Godfrey, Wolf Kahler, Lena Headey, Peter Eyre, Emma Thompson, Michael Lonsdale, Paul Copley, Tim Pigott-Smith, Peter Cellier, Peter Vaughan, Hugh Grant ...MORE

Cast: Ben Chaplin, Patrick Godfrey, Wolf Kahler, Lena Headey, Peter Eyre, Emma Thompson, Michael Lonsdale, Paul Copley, Tim Pigott-Smith, Peter Cellier, Peter Vaughan, Hugh Grant, Christopher Reeve, Anthony Hopkins, James Fox ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romance Film, Romantic Drama, Drama Film, Film Adaptation, Period Piece

The Remains of the Day is a 1993 Merchant Ivory film adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, Mike Nichols and John Calley. It starred Anthony Hopkins as Stevens and Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton with James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Hugh Grant and Ben Chaplin. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards. In 1950s England, Mr Stevens (Anthony Hopkins), the butler of Darlington Hall, receives a letter from Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson), who worked with him as housekeeper during the years prior to the... MORE

The Remains of the Day is a 1993 Merchant Ivory film adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, Mike Nichols and John Calley. It starred Anthony Hopkins as Stevens and Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton with James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Hugh Grant and Ben Chaplin. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards. In 1950s England, Mr Stevens (Anthony Hopkins), the butler of Darlington Hall, receives a letter from Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson), who worked with him as housekeeper during the years prior to the Second World War. Twenty years later, Lord Darlington (James Fox) has died and his stately country manor has been sold to a retired American Congressman, Mr. Lewis (Christopher Reeve). Kenton reveals that her marriage has failed and that she is nostalgic for the days when she worked at the house. Stevens (now one of the few remaining servants from the Darlington era) goes to visit Miss Kenton, ostensibly to persuade her to return to service. The film flashes back to Kenton's arrival as housekeeper. At the time, Darlington Hall was frequented by many politicians of the interwar period, men who decided LESS