Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
The story
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
- newspaper
- london
- england
- nazi
- england
- butler
- country house
- loyalty
- britain
- housekeeper
- employer
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Anthony Hopkins
James Stevens
Emma Thompson
Miss Kenton
James Fox
Lord Darlington
Christopher Reeve
Jack Lewis
- Hugh Grant — Reginald Cardinal
- Peter Vaughan — William Stevens
- Ben Chaplin — Charlie, Head Footman
- Paula Jacobs — Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
- Patrick Godfrey — Spencer
- Michael Lonsdale — Dupont D'Ivry
- Rupert Vansittart — Sir Geoffrey Wren
- Tim Pigott-Smith — Thomas Benn
- Lena Headey — Lizzie
- Paul Copley — Harry Smith
- Peter Cellier — Sir Leonard Bax
- Directed
- James Ivory
- Written
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 1,535 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures, Mike Nichols Productions, John Calley Productions, Merchant Ivory Productions
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