Film7.41993134m

The Remains of the Day

Name: The Remains of the Day
Director: James Ivory
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1993-11-05
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Hugh Grant

DramaRomance

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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Cast

Anthony HopkinsEmma ThompsonJames FoxChristopher ReeveHugh GrantPeter VaughanBen ChaplinPaula JacobsPatrick GodfreyMichael LonsdaleRupert VansittartTim Pigott-Smith

Director

James Ivory

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