The Remains of the Day
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.
Drama, Romance
Columbia Pictures, Merchant Ivory Productions
Anthony Hopkins as James Stevens, Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton, James Fox as Lord Darlington, Christopher Reeve as Jack Lewis, Hugh Grant as Reginald Cardinal, Peter Vaughan as William Stevens, Ben Chaplin as Charlie, Head Footman, Paula Jacobs as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook, Patrick Godfrey as Spencer, Michael Lonsdale as Dupont D'Ivry, Rupert Vansittart as Sir Geoffrey Wren, Tim Pigott-Smith as Thomas Benn, Lena Headey as Lizzie, Paul Copley as Harry Smith, Peter Cellier as Sir Leonard Bax, Brigitte Kahn as Baroness, John Savident as Doctor Meredith, Pip Torrens as Doctor Richard Carlisle, Peter Eyre as Lord Halifax, Wolf Kahler as German ambassador, Abigail Hopkins as Housemaid, John Haycraft as Auctioneer, Caroline Hunt as Landlady, Steve Dibben as George, Second Footman, Terence Bayler as Trimmer, Peter Halliday as Canon Tufnell, Jeffry Wickham as Viscount Bigge, Tony Aitken as Postmaster, Christopher Brown as Irma, Ian Redford as Publican, Jo Kendall as Publican's wife, Steven Beard as Andrews, Miles Richardson as Craddock (uncredited)