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Remains of the Day |
My Rating:
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Primary Location: |
First Saw:In Theatre |
Saw at/with: With Dad, Anne and Jean at Mine-Cine 1-4
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Rating: PG
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Year:
1993
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Category: Drama Romance
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Director:
James Ivory
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Time:
138 min.
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Writer:
Kazuo Ishiguro & Ruth Prower Jhabvala
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| Mine: |
Very long, particularly dull tale. I have never liked a Merchant/Ivory film. They all must be too deep, and I too shallow, to appreciate. Depressing stuff.
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| Leonard Maltin/Plot synopsis: |
HOWARDS END leads are reunited as servants at a baronial English country home--Hopkins a self-sacrificing butler who serves with the utmost discretion, and Thompson an efficient and bright head housekeeper. The two collide over work--and especially over overtures of romance. Looming over these personal stories is the (fascinating) larger tale of the misguided lord of the manor (Fox), who is excitedly making alliances with Nazi sympathizers. Kazuo Ishiguro's novel was adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and though film can't quite dispel its literary origin, even almost-great Merchant-Ivory is better than most anything else around. Coproduced by Mike Nichols. Super 35.
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