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.
Anthony Hopkins
as James Stevens
Emma Thompson
as Miss Kenton
James Fox
as Lord Darlington
Christopher Reeve
as Jack Lewis
Hugh Grant
as Reginald Cardinal
Peter Vaughan
as William Stevens
Ben Chaplin
as Charlie, Head Footman
Paula Jacobs
as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
Patrick Godfrey
as Spencer
Michael Lonsdale
as Dupont D'Ivry
Rupert Vansittart
as Sir Geoffrey Wren
Tim Pigott-Smith
as Thomas Benn
