The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day (1993)

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day (1991)

Budget (GBP) 0
Distribution Company

Columbia Pictures Corporation   (Film Studio | Est. Unknown)

Release Date 5 November 1993
Black and White No
Regional Release No
Release Notes USA 25 October 1993 (Beverly Hills, California) (premiere);
USA 28 October 1993 (New York City, New York) (premiere);
UK 4 November 1993 (London Film Festival);
Canada 5 November 1993 (limited);
USA 5 November 1993 (limited);
UK 12 November 1993;
Ireland 12 November 1993;
USA 19 November 1993;
Argentina 13 January 1994;
Italy 14 February 1994 (Rome) (premiere);
Germany 21 February 1994 (Berlin International Film Festival);
France 23 February 1994;
Australia 24 February 1994;
Netherlands 24 February 1994;
Brazil 25 February 1994;
Denmark 25 February 1994;
Spain 25 February 1994;
Finland 25 February 1994;
Italy 25 February 1994;
Sweden 25 February 1994;
Japan March 1994;
Germany 10 March 1994;
Greece 10 March 1994;
Norway 11 March 1994;
Portugal 11 March 1994;
Turkey 18 March 1994;
Hungary 14 April 1994;
Poland 15 April 1994;
South Korea 16 April 1994;
Estonia 9 September 1994;
Greece 17 September 2001 (DVD premiere);
Japan 25 October 2011 (Kitashinano Obuse Film Festival).
Description An adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 Booker Prize-winning novel. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is the credited screenwriter, but the film incorporates sections of an earlier screenplay written by Pinter in 1990. Pinter asked to have his name removed from the film's credits. During the 1930s, James Stevens (Anthony Hopkins) serves as a proper English butler to the doltish Lord Darlington (James Fox). Stevens is so dedicated that he forgoes visiting his father on his deathbed in order to serve, and overlooks Darlington's Nazi sympathies and growing anti-Semitism. Twenty years after his employer's death, Stevens tries to reconnect with Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson), Darlington's head housekeeper, and begins to regret his loyalty to his former master.
Language English

Linked Productions

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Linked People

James Ivory

Creative | Director

Kazuo Ishiguro (1954)

Creative | Author (original novel)

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Creative | Screenplay

Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)

Creative | Screenplay (uncredited)

Paul Bradley

Production | Executive Producer

John Calley

Production | Producer

Ismail Merchant

Production | Producer

Mike Nichols

Production | Producer

Donald Rosenfeld

Production | Producer

Richard Robbins

Creative | Music

Tony Pierce-Roberts

Creative | Cinematographer

Andrew Marcus

Creative | Film Editor

Celestia Fox

Creative | Casting

Luciana Arrighi

Creative | Projection Designer

John Ralph

Creative | Art Director

Ian Whittaker

Creative | Set Decoration

Jenny Beavan

Creative | Costume Designer

John Bright

Creative | Costume Designer

Christine Beveridge

Creative | Chief Makeup Artist

Carol Hemming

Creative | Chief Hairstylist

Paolo Mantini

Creative | Hairstylist

Norma Webb

Creative | Makeup Artist

Joyce Herlihy

Production | Production supervisor

Bernard Bellew

Creative | Third Assistant Director

Simon Moseley

Creative | Second Assistant Director

Chris Newman

Creative | Assistant Director

Simone Assananad

Creative | Art department assistant

Chris Browning

Technical | Standby Props

Sveva Costa Sanservino

Creative | Art department assistant

Mark Fruin

Technical | Standby Props

John Hedges

Technical | Construction manager

Sophia Muller

Creative | Art department assistant

Jill Quertier

Production | Production buyer

Dennis Simmonds

Creative | Props Dresser

Arthur Wicks

Technical | Props Master

Richard Roberts

Creative | Draughtsman

Chris Seddon

Technical | Drapes man

Mark White

Technical | Construction

Aaron Anawalt

Technical | Sound Assistant

Brian Blamey

Technical | Foley editor

Geoff R. Brown

Technical | Assistant sound editor

Derek Holding

Technical | Dialogue editor

Dominic Lester

Technical | Assistant sound re-recordist

Colin Miller

Technical | Sound Editor

Robin O'Donoghue

Technical | Sound Re-recordist

Colin Wood

Technical | Boom operator

Russ Woolnough

Technical | Assistant sound editor

Tim Partridge

Technical | Dolby sound consultant

Karin Hanson

Technical | Special effects hair

Garth Inns

Technical | Special Effects Supervisor

Martin Body

Technical | Rostrum cameraman

David Smith

Technical | Optical cameraman

Peter Batten

Technical | Clapper loader

Adrian Simmons

Technical | Wardrobe assistant

Simon Cozens

Technical | Second assistant editor

Kerry Kohler

Technical | Assistant editor

Michelle Gorchow

Technical | Associate editor

Craig Mooney

Technical | Apprentice editor

Tom Forletta

Technical | Colourist

Joe Friedman

Production | Location scout

Christian McWilliams

Production | Location manager

Colin Plenty

Production | Location assistant

Geoff Alexander

Production | Music coordinator

Harry Rabinowitz (1916 - 2016)

Creative | Conductor

Bill Somerville-Large

Technical | Music recording engineer

Robert Stewart

Creative | Music Arranger

Mark Berrow

Creative | Musician

Cengiz Asiliskender

Technical | Driver

Bryan Baverstock

Technical | Driver

David Bennett

Technical | Driver

John Bower

Technical | Driver

Elizabeth Aldrich

Creative | Choreographer

Bobby Blues

Production | Production accountant

Cyril Dickman

Production | Technical advisor

Diana Dill

Production | Script supervisor

Lorraine Fennell

Production | Production Coordinator

David Field

Production | Stand-in

Peter Giblin

Production | Runner

Robert Hamilton

Production | Assistant technical advisor

Jacky Holding

Production | Production accountant

William James

Production | Crowd marshall

Sunil Kirparam

Production | Production accountant

Fay Efronsi Lellios

Production | Project creative assistant

Annie Livings

Production | Stand-in

Kathryn Martin

Production | Assistant to producer

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Characters

James Stevens (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Anthony Hopkins

Miss Kenton (Age: Not specified, Female)

Performer: Emma Thompson

Father (Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Peter Vaughn (1923 - 2016)

Mrs Mortimer, the Cook (Age: Not specified, Female)

Performer: Caroline Hunt

Reginald Cardinal (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Hugh Grant

Irma (Age: Not specified, Female)

Performer: Joanna Joseph

Jack Lewis (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Christopher Reeve

Lord Darlington (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: James Fox (1939)

Thomas Benn (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Tim Pigott-Smith (1946 - 2017)

Housemaid (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Female)

Performer: Abigail Harrison

Spencer (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Patrick Godfrey

Sir Leonard Bax (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Peter Cellier

Canon Tufnell (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Peter Halliday

Trimmer (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Terence Bayler

Viscount Bigge (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Jeffrey Wickham

Scullery Boy (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Hugh Sweetman

Dupont D'Ivry (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Michael Lonsdale

Baroness (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Female)

Performer: Brigitte Kahn

Doctor Meredith (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: John Savident

Postmaster (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Tony Aitken

Elsa (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Female)

Performer: Emma Lewis

Sir Geoffrey Wren (Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Rupert Vansittart

Wren's Friend (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Christopher Brown

Lizzie (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Female)

Performer: Lena Headey

Harry Smith (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Paul Copley

Publican (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Ian Redford

Publican's Wife (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Female)

Performer: Jo Kendall

Andrews (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Steven Beard

Doctor Carlisle (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Pip Torrens

Prime Minister (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Frank Shelley

Lord Halifax (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Peter Eyre

Foreign Office Official (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Jestyn Phillips

German Ambassador (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Wolf Kahler

German Embassy Official (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Frank Holtje

German Embassy Official (2) (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Andreas Tons

Police Constable (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Roger McKern

Waitress (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Female)

Performer: Angela Newmarch

Dinner Guest (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Keith Gale

Craddock (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Miles Richardson

Charlie, Head Footman (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Ben Chaplin

George, Second Footman (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Steve Dibben

Auctioneer (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: John Haycraft

Landlady (The Remains of the Day) (Age: Not specified, Female)

Performer: Caroline Hunt

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Resources

David Hunter, 'The Remains of the Day', The Hollywood Reporter, 24 September 1993 (URL)

Type: Review

External Link: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/remains-day-review-movie-1993-1249155

Peter Travers, 'The Remains of the Day', Rolling Stone, 5 November 1993 (URL)

Type: Review

External Link: https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/the-remains-of-the-day-87372/

Rita Kempley, ‘The Remains of the Day’, Washington Post, 5 November 1993 (URL)

Type: Review

External Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/theremainsofthedaypgkempley_a0a3cd.htm?

Todd McCarthy, 'The Remains of the Day', Variety, 24 September 1993 (URL)

Type: Review

External Link: https://variety.com/1993/film/reviews/the-remains-of-the-day-1200433199/

The Remains of the Day Trailer, 1993 (URL)

Type: Trailer

External Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1aCp1Z1gAo

Original trailer.

Vincent Canby, 'Blind Dignity: A Butler's Story', The New York Times, November 5, 1993, Section C, p. 1 (URL)

Type: Review

External Link: https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/05/movies/review-film-remains-of-the-day-blind-dignity-a-butler-s-story.html

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