The remains of the day [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 71097 | Columbia PicturesPublication details: Burbank, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Video, p2001.Edition: Special edDescription: 1 videodisc (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0767848853 :
- 9780767848855
- Remains of the day (Motion picture).
- Music, Richard Robbins ; screenplay, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; producers, Mike Nichols, John Calley, Ismail Merchant ; director, James Ivory.
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | DRAMA Remains | Available | 33111005856600 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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, Rovi
Based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1993.
Special features: widescreen presentation ; in English 5.1 (Dolby digital) and 2-channel (Dolby surround), French, Spanish, Portuguese languages ; subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, or Thai ; documentaries ; deleted scenes.
Music, Richard Robbins ; screenplay, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; producers, Mike Nichols, John Calley, Ismail Merchant ; director, James Ivory.
Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve.
The story of blind devotion and repressed love between a fanatically proper butler and a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper employed by a British lord who is unwittingly a Nazi dupe.
Rated PG.
DVD.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.