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Importance of Being Earnest (The)

Country: UK, Language: English, 97 mins

  • Director: Oliver Parker
  • Writer: Oscar Wilde; Oliver Parker
  • Producer: David Brown; Uri Fruchtmann

CGiii Comment

Massively unimpressive - despite the Oscar-winning names.

All of Wilde's humour has been erased by the inept direction.

Parker...a director who messes up and around with too many genres, a director with neither style nor trademark. A director without identity.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Two young gentlemen living in 1890's England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities...

Cast & Characters

Rupert Everett as Algernon 'Algy' Moncrieff;
Colin Firth as John 'Jack' Worthing;
Frances O'Connor as Gwendolen Fairfax;
Reese Witherspoon as Cecily Cardew;
Judi Dench as Lady Augusta Bracknell;
Tom Wilkinson as Dr. Frederick Chasuble;
Anna Massey as Miss Laetitia Prism;
Edward Fox as Lane, Algy's Butler;
Patrick Godfrey as Merriman;
Charles Kay as Gribsby;
Cyril Shaps as Pew Opener;
Marsha Fitzalan as Dowager;
Finty Williams as Young Augusta Bracknell;
Guy Bensley as Young Lord Bracknell;
Christina Robert as Duchess of Devonshire