The Remains of the Day: Book vs. Movie
James Ivory's 1993 film The Remains of the Day adapts Kazuo Ishiguro's book. Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson play a butler and housekeeper whose years at an English country estate are shaped by duty, unspoken feelings and their employer's political loyalties.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Year
- 1989
- Pages
- 245Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 9 hr 23 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Nicholas Guy Smith
Stevens, an English butler, takes a motoring holiday with the hope of seeing Miss Kenton, the former housekeeper at Darlington Hall. As he recalls their years of service, his account of professional duty begins to expose the feelings he has suppressed and the political loyalties he has refused to question.
- Director
- James Ivory
- Writer
- Harold Pinter, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Year
- 1993
- Runtime
- 2 hr 14 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve
- Genre
- drama
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
At Darlington Hall, butler Stevens runs the household with an exacting discipline that leaves little room for private feelings. The arrival of housekeeper Miss Kenton challenges his reserve, while his employer's dealings with Nazi sympathizers test a loyalty he regards as unquestionable. Years later, the prospect of seeing Miss Kenton again brings the choices made in that house back into focus.
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