Rating: PG
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 11/06/2001
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol/Por/KO/TH
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol/Por
Sound: DD5.1/DDS2.0
Run Time: 134 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
Filmed with the usual meticulous attention to period and detail of films from
Ismail Merchant and
James Ivory,
The Remains of the Day is based on a novel by
Kazuo Ishiguro.
Anthony Hopkins plays
Stevens, the "perfect" butler to a prosperous British household of the 1930s. He is so unswervingly devoted to serving his master, a well-meaning but callow British lord (
James Fox), that he shuts himself off from all emotions and familial relationships. New housekeeper
Miss Kenton (
Emma Thompson) tries to warm him up and awaken his humanity. But when duty calls,
Stevens won't even attend his own dying father's last moments on earth. The butler also refuses to acknowledge the fact that his master is showing signs of pro-Nazi sentiments. Disillusioned by
Hitler's duplicity, the master dies an embittered man, and only then does
Stevens come to realize how his own silence has helped bring about this sad situation. Years later, regretting his lost opportunities in life, he tries once more to make contact with
Miss Kenton, the only person who'd ever cared enough to seek out the human being inside the butler's cold veneer.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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