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Ideal Husband (An)

Country: UK, Language: English, 97 mins

  • Director: Oliver Parker
  • Writer: Oscar Wilde; Oliver Parker
  • Producer: Nicky Kentish Barnes; Andrea Calderwood

CGiii Comment

Shame about the packaging - a beautifully acted film.

Parker loves his Wilde and Everett (playing a camp straight aristocrat) relishes the role.

It really is a good film...but, it is only for those who appreciate the manners and majesty of Wilde - therefore, its appeal is for a limited audience, sadly.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.

Cast & Characters

Cate Blanchett as Lady Gertrude Chiltern;
Minnie Driver as Miss Mabel Chiltern;
Rupert Everett as Lord Arthur Goring;
Julianne Moore as Mrs. Laura Cheveley;
Jeremy Northam as Sir Robert Chiltern;
John Wood as Lord Caversham;
Peter Vaughan as Phipps;
Ben Pullen as Tommy Trafford;
Marsha Fitzalan as Countess;
Lindsay Duncan as Lady Markby;
Neville Phillips as Mason;
Nickolas Grace as Vicomte de Nanjac;
Simon Russell Beale as Sir Edward;
Anna Patrick as Miss Danvers;
Delia Lindsay as Lady Basildon