The Remains of the Day is a 1993 English-language Drama Romance motion picture written by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The movie is directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, Mike Nichols and John Calley under the banner of Merchant Ivory Productions. 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. The remains of the day features Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Peter Vaughan, Hugh Grant and Miles Richardson. The screenplay is written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Harold Pinter which is inspired from The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. The music was composed by Richard Robbins. Cinematography was done by Tony Pierce-Roberts and editing by Andrew Marcus. The film has a running time of 134 minutes. It was released on 12th November 1993 and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released and became successful at box office. The Remains of the Day was made on a budget of $15 million and it was a hit at box office gross of $23 million. Distribution rights for the film were acquired by Columbia Pictures.