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The House of Mirth
Why this pick
Its exquisitely restrained performances, period detail and aching attention to social duty echo the melancholy, unspoken emotional life of The Remains of the Day.
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MOVIE1993 2h 14m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1958 post-war Britain, Stevens, the butler of Darlington Hall, receives a letter from Miss Kenton, a former colleague employed as the Housekeeper (domestic worker) some twenty years earlier, now separated from her husband. Their former employer Lord Darlington has died a broken man, his reputation destroyed after he was exposed as a Nazi sympathizer, and his stately country manor has been sold to a retired United States Congressman, Mr. Jack Lewis. Stevens is granted permission to borrow Lewis' Daimler Company#Lanchester acquisition and badging, and he sets off to the West Country to see Miss Kenton, in the hope that she will return as housekeeper.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Anthony Hopkins
James Stevens
Emma Thompson
Miss Kenton
James Fox
Lord Darlington
Christopher Reeve
Jack Lewis
Peter Vaughan
William Stevens
Michael Lonsdale
Dupont D'Ivry
Paula Jacobs
Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
Ben Chaplin
Charlie, Head Footman