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The Remains of the Day

  • 19931993
  • PGPG
  • 2h 14m
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Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson in The Remains of the Day (1993)
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A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.
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    • James Ivory
    • Kazuo Ishiguro(novel)
    • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Anthony Hopkins
    • Emma Thompson
    • John Haycraft
    • James Ivory
    • Kazuo Ishiguro(novel)
    • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Anthony Hopkins
    • Emma Thompson
    • John Haycraft
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 236User reviews
    • 49Critic reviews
    • 86Metascore
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    • Nominated for 8 Oscars

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    Anthony Hopkins
    Anthony Hopkins
    • Stevens
    Emma Thompson
    Emma Thompson
    • Miss Kenton
    John Haycraft
    • Auctioneer
    Christopher Reeve
    Christopher Reeve
    • Lewis
    Caroline Hunt
    • Landlady
    James Fox
    James Fox
    • Lord Darlington
    Peter Vaughan
    Peter Vaughan
    • Father
    Paula Jacobs
    • Mrs. Mortimer, the Cook
    Ben Chaplin
    Ben Chaplin
    • Charlie, Head Footman
    Steve Dibben
    Steve Dibben
    • George, Second Footman
    Abigail Hopkins
    Abigail Hopkins
    • Housemaid
    • (as Abigail Harrison)
    Patrick Godfrey
    Patrick Godfrey
    • Spencer
    Peter Cellier
    Peter Cellier
    • Sir Leonard Bax
    Peter Halliday
    Peter Halliday
    • Canon Tufnell
    Hugh Grant
    Hugh Grant
    • Cardinal
    Terence Bayler
    Terence Bayler
    • Trimmer
    Jeffry Wickham
    Jeffry Wickham
    • Viscount Bigge
    Hugh Sweetman
    • Scullery Boy
      • James Ivory
      • Kazuo Ishiguro(novel)
      • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Sir Anthony Hopkins, as a guest on Inside the Actors Studio (1994), said that he got tips on how to play a butler from real-life butler Cyril Dickman, who served for fifty years at Buckingham Palace. Dickman said "There's nothing to being a butler, really; when you're in the room, it should be even more empty."
    • Goofs
      As the camera recedes in the final aerial shot departing from the estate, it briefly reveals a modern, silver-colored hatchback automobile backed up to the left end of the building.
    • Quotes

      Stevens: In my philosophy, Mr. Benn, a man cannot call himself well-contented until he has done all he can to be of service to his employer. Of course, this assumes that one's employer is a superior person, not only in rank, or wealth, but in moral stature.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Fatal Instinct/Demolition Man/The Remains of the Day/Twenty Bucks (1993)
    • Soundtracks
      Blue Moon
      Composed by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart

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    What do you most look forward to, Mr. Stevens?
    The crowning achievement of the Ismail Merchant/James Ivory partnership and their entire production team who give their absolute best in original music, cinematography, editing, art and set direction, costumes, and, of course, screenplay by Merchant/Ivory regular Ruth Prawler Jhabvala. Add flawless performances from the all-star cast and the result is almost too perfect. But there is just enough humility to this sad tale of unrequited love to make it completely believable.

    Anthony Hopkins excels as the impenetrable Mr. Stevens, Butler of a lordly country house in the final days of the British Empire, and Emma Thompson is superb as his foil, Housekeeper Miss Kenton. Both give wonderfully deep, sensitive portrayals of two complex lonely people who don't realize, until it's too late, that they belong together. Swirling around them is fascinating drama of life upstairs and downstairs and there are as many surprises and sub-plots to the story (based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro) as there are secret passages, nooks, and crannies in "Darlington House."

    An all-round first-rate cinematic experience, "Remains of the Day" is one of those pictures that lingers in the mind long after the credits pass. A must see. One poignant note: this was the return to the big screen of actor Christopher Reeve, as American millionaire Congressman Lewis, whose life nicely frames the storyline. Two years later Reeve became paralyzed after being thrown from a horse.
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      • November 19, 1993 (United States)
      • United States
      • United Kingdom
      • Merchant Ivory Productions (United States)
      • English
      • French
      • German
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    • Filming locations
      • Dyrham Park, Dyrham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Columbia Pictures
      • Merchant Ivory Productions
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    • 2 hours 14 minutes
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