Sense and sensibility: a Mirage production ; an Ang Lee film ; executive producer: Sydney Pollack ; screenplay by Emma Thompson ; produced by Lindsay Doran ; directed by Ang Lee ; director of photography: Michael Coulter ; editor: Tim Squyres ; music: Patrick Doyle.

The remains of the day: editor: Andrew Marcus ; music: Richard Robbins ; executive producer: Paul Bradley ; producers: MIke Nichols, John Calley, Ismail Merchant ; director: James Ivory.

Sense and sensibility: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant.

The remains of the day: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve.

Originally released as motion pictures: 1995 (Sense and sensibility) and 1993 (The remains of the day)

/the Remain of the Day: Anthony 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.

Sense and Sensibility: Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, Sense and Sensibility tells of the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune.

MPAA rated PG.

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