Movie
1993
The Remains of the Day is a 1993 drama film adapted from the Booker Prize–winning 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.
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One of the most common complaints against producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory is that their films look the same. Actually, phrase "Merchant-Ivory film" began to enter dictionaries as description for "adaptation of Victorian or Edwardian novel about socially repressed stiff-upper-lip middle or upper class English people". However, every now and then Merchant and Ivory make the film that strays from that…More
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