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?).
