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Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Peter Vaughan
This excellent film is probably best described as subtle elegance. Framed in the present, the movie deals with the lives inside an English country home just prior to World War II. Reunited with the fi...( read more 
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Id: 10903004
attention to detail... james ivory is the master of that sort of thing and although this film seems to have no purpose it's still very watchable and flows because of that innate attentiveness. have seen anthony hopkins & emma thompson in a james ivory film before but christopher ...( read more)
"A man cannot call himself work contented, until he has done all he can, to be of service to his employer." ~Mr. Stevens
Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins reunite in this movie after Howards End. Mr. Stevens (Anthony Hopkins) is a butler and an institution by himself at Darlingt...( read more)
Movie about an English country home just prior to World War II and it's occupants. Great cast.
A very slow, rather boring period drama. Where not a lot happens in a country house in the period leading up to the war.
Flawless performances by Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson amidst a plot that is both personal and political. This is an important movie if ever there was one.
The broken narrative is not the directorial choice I would have made, but it doesn't really have much of an effect on t...( read more)
Didn't see the point.
When that happens, it's difficult to like a film like this one.
90's classic telling the heartbreaking tale of private romantic Mr Stevens (Anthony Hopkins), a butler who falls in love with the new housekeeper Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson), and who out of loyalty and devotion to his master, forces himself to supress his feelings and ignore the ...( read more)
