The Remains Of The Day

Oscar winners Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) and Emma Thompson (Howards End) reunite with the acclaimed Merchant Ivory film-making 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. Marvelously acted by a supporting cast that includes Christopher Reeve and Hugh Grant.

Special Features

Deleted Scenes (with optional commentary by James Ivory) (11:31)
Photo Opportunity Argument A Message Democracy is Finished A Different Life On the Pier Love and Loyalty:
The Making of The Remains of the Day featurette (28:37)
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmakers Journey featurette (29:53) Blind Loyalty,
Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw featurette (14:52)

The Remains Of The Day Reviews

""All the meticulousness, intelligence, taste and superior acting that one expects from Merchant Ivory productions have been brought to bear. – Variety

“Who else but Merchant Ivory to give the big-screen treatment to Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning novel about class, fascism and the stiff upper lip?” – Time Out

“My choice for the best film of 1993. Impeccably acted and very moving. Anthony Hopkins is phenomenal as Stevens the repressed butler.” – Fantastica Daily