The Remains Of The Day | The Proposal | Love Love

Sally (Emma Thompson) goes out on a date with Tom Benn, who proposes to her.

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Oscar®-winners Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) and Emma Thompson (Howards End) reunite with the acclaimed Merchant Ivory filmmaking team for this extraordinary and moving story of blind devotion and repressed love. Hopkins stars as Stevens, the perfect English butler - an ideal carried by him to fanatical lengths - as he serves his master, Lord Darlington, beautifully played by James Fox (The Servant). Darlington, like many other members of the British establishment in the 1930s, is duped by the Nazis into trying to establish a rapport between themselves and the British government. Thompson stars as the estate's housekeeper, a high-spirited, strong-minded young woman who watches the goings-on upstairs with horror. Despite her apprehensions, she and Stevens gradually fall in love, though neither will admit it, and only give vent to their charged feelings via fierce arguments. Marvelously acted by a supporting cast that includes Christopher Reeve and Hugh Grant.

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The Remains Of The Day | The Proposal | Love Love

[trinaq]

One of my favourite films, it has a bittersweet ending, with great performances.

[brianfarrell]

Hopkins and Thompson are amazing in this movie, but the supporting cast are also brilliant, including Tim Piggot Smith as Mr. Benn. He plays him as young and confident (albeit suspicious of his boss's fascistic leanings), then sad and broken as the older Benn who is trying desperately to salvage his marriage to Sally/Mrs. Benn.

[voxymail]

imagine proposing to a girl on a first date now

[map]

Mr Benn was a decent man. Sadly he never got his dream of being his own boss. He did marry her. Steven’s kept quiet.