The Remains of the Day (1993)

The Remains of the Day (1993) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( DTS 5.1 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
134 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Deleted Scenes
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Short Film

Movie filmed in 1993 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
James Ivory

Written By:
Kazuo Ishiguro
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Actors:
John Haycraft ..... Auctioneer
Christopher Reeve ..... Jack Lewis
Anthony Hopkins ..... James Stevens
Emma Thompson ..... Miss Kenton
Caroline Hunt ..... Landlady
James Fox ..... Lord Darlington
Peter Vaughan ..... William Stevens
Paula Jacobs ..... Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
Ben Chaplin ..... Charlie, Head Footman
Steve Dibben ..... George, Second Footman
Abigail Hopkins ..... Housemaid
Patrick Godfrey ..... Spencer
Peter Cellier ..... Sir Leonard Bax
Peter Halliday ..... Canon Tufnell
Hugh Grant ..... Reginald Cardinal

Synopsis:

Oscar winners Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) and Emma Thompson (Howards End) reunite with the acclaimed Merchant Ivory filmmaking team for this extraordinary and moving story of blind devotion and repressed love. Hopkins stars as Stevens, the perfect English butler - an ideal carried by him to fanatical lengths - as he serves his master, Lord Darlington, beautifully played by James Fox (The Servant). Darlington, like many other members of the British establishment in the 1930s, is duped by the Nazis into trying to establish a rapport between themselves and the British government. Thompson stars as the estate's housekeeper, a high-spirited, strong-minded young woman who watches the goings-on upstairs with horror. Despite her apprehensions, she and Stevens gradually fall in love, though neither will admit it, and only give vent to their charged feelings via fierce arguments. Marvellously acted by a supporting cast that includes Christopher Reeve and Hugh Grant.

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.

A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years post World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty has been.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 10 June, 2022.