A head butler's intimate world of decorum and duty faces melancholy challenges from love and war.
Earnest. A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Prime Video, The Roku Channel (free) and Tubi (free).
Mild language and nothing scary, about what a PG should carry.
Our estimate: fine from about 7. Rated PG.
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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.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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