A butler's loyalty and service in the years before World War II is tested with the possibility of romance with a housekeeper, and when his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

• 2 hr 15 min
• Directed by

  James Ivory
• Written by Kazuo Ishiguro, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

• Starring

  Christopher Reeve

  ,

  Anthony Hopkins

  ,

  Emma Thompson

  ,

  James Fox

  ,

  Peter Vaughan

  ,

  Hugh Grant

  ,

  Michel Lonsdale

  ,

  Tim Pigott Smith

  ,

  Patrick Godfrey

  ,

  Peter Cellier

  ,

  Paul Copley

  ,

  Peter Eyre

  ,

  Lena Headey

  ,

  Pip Torrens

  ,

  Rupert Vansittart

  ,

  Terence Bayler

  ,

  Caroline Hunt

  ,

  Wolf Kahler

  ,

  John Savident

  ,

  Jeffrey Wickham

  ,

  Emma Lewis

  ,

  Ben Chaplin

  ,

  Christopher Brown