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Where was The Remains of the Day filmed?

1993 film, directed by James Ivory.

  • Badminton House

The story is set in England, about 114 miles (184 km) from where it was filmed.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
England
Filmed in
Badminton House
Distance
About 114 miles (184 km) between England and the nearest filming location.

About The Remains of the Day

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Released
1993
Director
James Ivory
Cast
Anthony HopkinsEmma ThompsonJames FoxChristopher ReeveHugh GrantBen ChaplinPeter VaughanMichael LonsdalePatrick GodfreyPeter Cellier
Genre
Drama
Based on
The Remains of the Day
Awards
Silver nugget for the best foreign film; National Board of Review: Top Ten Films

The story

In 1958 postwar Britain, Stevens, the butler of Darlington Hall, receives a letter from the former housekeeper, Miss Kenton, now Mrs.

Displaying total professionalism, Stevens carries on as his father lies dying during Darlington's conference of like-minded fascist-sympathising British and European aristocrats.

At another conference, Stevens is unable to answer an aristocratic guest's questions on global trade and politics, which the aristocrat claims demonstrates the lower classes' ignorance and inability to govern themselves.

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