A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer. Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox and Christopher Reeve star in a British film, opposite Peter Vaughan, Hugh Grant, Michael Lonsdale, and Tim Pigott-Smith. James Ivory directs from the screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; Based on the 1989 historical novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, a Japanese-British immigrant, from Faber and Faber. Produced by Mike Nichols, John Calley and Ismail Merchant; Executive Produced by Paul Bradley. A Mike Nichols/John Calley/Merchant Ivory production for Columbia Pictures.