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.
"Diamond in the Rough."
Top Billed Cast
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
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2022-04-18
This is one of Anthony Hopkins' most nuanced and classy performances, depicting the last of a dying breed of upper servants in the stately home of "Lord Darlington" (James Fox). It's told by way of a retrospective as he takes some time off from his work as butler to American millionaire "Lewis" (Christopher Reeve) and goes for a drive to meet the former housekeeper "Miss Kenton" (Emma Thompson). The theme has two threads. The first concerning the peer for whom he worked for a great period of his career. This is a man who believed in what turned out to be a flawed gentlemen's code of honour and...
F Filipe Manuel NetoVerified TMDB Critic
2022-11-25
**It is an excellent film, even if I disagree with the thesis on which it was made.**
In the period between the two world wars, the world tried to make sure that there was never again something as destructive and traumatic as the First World War. However, such decisions, very commendable but chimerical and contrary to human nature, failed, as we know: the Second World War will occur just a few years later, almost as a direct consequence of the mismanagement of peace, so hard achieved. However, the UK (and other countries) sought to avoid the new conflict by choosing to ignore everything tha...
