The Remains of the Day Anthony Hopkins, Enma Thompson, Christopher Reeve 4K to buy
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An English butlers professional and emotional life is examined retrospectively during a journey towards a reunion with the housekeeper he loved years before. He recalls his lengthy unquestioned service with a reactionary, proNazi aristocrat, and his painfully unfulfilled relationship with the woman he is going to meet.
Remains of the Day is a 1993 drama film adapted from the Booker Prizewinning 1989 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. The film was directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant, Mike Nichols, and John Calley and adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It stars Anthony Hopkins as James Stevens and Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton, with James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Hugh Grant, Ben Chaplin, and Lena Headey in supporting roles.
The film was a critical and box office success and it was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor Hopkins, Best Actress Thompson and Best Adapted Screenplay Jhabvala. In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked The Remains of the Day the 64thgreatest British film of the 20th century.