8.7 Score

1993 • 2h 14min • PG • Drama, Romance

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.

IMDb 7.8

RT 95%

MC 86

Director

James Ivory

Writers

Kazuo Ishiguro

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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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

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Tim Pigott-Smith Thomas Benn

Lena Headey Lizzie

Paul Copley Harry Smith

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