It is November 1932. Gosford Park is the magnificent country estate to which Sir William McCordle and his wife, Lady Sylvia, gather relations and friends for a weekend shooting party. They have invited an eclectic group including a countess, a World War I hero, the British matinee idol Ivor Novello and an American film producer who makes Charlie Chan movies. As the guests assemble in the gilded drawing rooms above, their personal maids and valets swell the ranks of the house servants in the teeming kitchens and corridors below-stairs.

But all is not as it seems: neither amongst the bejeweled guests lunching and dining at their enormous leisure, nor in the attic bedrooms and stark work stations where the servants labor for the comfort of their employers. In this luxurious setting, we're made witness to a series of events which bridge generations, class, sex, tragic personal history--and culminate in a murder... (or is it two murders?).

Directed by
Robert Altman

Cast
Michael Gambon - Sir William McCordle
Kristin Scott Thomas - Lady Sylvia McCordle
Camilla Rutherford - Isobel McCordle
Maggie Smith - Constance, Countess of Trentham
Jeremy Northam - Ivor Novello
Bob Balaban - Morris Weissman
Charles Dance - Raymond, Lord Stockbridge
Alan Bates - Jennings
Helen Mirren - Mrs Wilson
Eileen Atkins - Mrs Croft
Derek Jacobi - Probert
Emily Watson - Elsie
Richard E Grant - George
Clive Owen - Robert Parks
Ryan Phillippe - Harry Denton

Production Co.
Sand Castle 5 Productions
Capitol Films
U.K. Film Council's Premiere Fund National Lottery
Chicagofilms
Medusa Pictures
USA Films (LA)

Produced by
Jane Barclay
Sharon Harel
Robert Jones

Studio
USA Films

Writer
Robert Altman
Julian Fellowes
Bob Balaban

Music
Patrick Doyle