An Ideal Husband (film)
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| An Ideal Husband | |
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| Directed by | Oliver Parker |
| Produced by | Barnaby Thompson Bruce Davey Uri Fruchtmann |
| Written by | Oliver Parker (based on the play by Oscar Wilde) |
| Starring | Cate Blanchett Minnie Driver Rupert Everett Julianne Moore Jeremy Northam John Wood Peter Vaughan Lindsay Duncan |
| Music by | Charlie Mole |
| Cinematography | David Johnson |
| Editing by | Guy Bensley |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
| Release date(s) | 16 April 1999 |
| Running time | 97min |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
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- This article is about the film. For the play, see An Ideal Husband
An Ideal Husband is a 1999 feature film based on the play by Oscar Wilde.
Starring Jeremy Northam, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Minnie Driver and Oscar winning actress Cate Blanchett. Directed by Oliver Parker.
It was selected as Cannes Film Festival's Closing film.
[edit] Synopsis
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
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 the plot to help his friend has unintended consequences.
[edit] Cast
Starring
- Cate Blanchett - Lady Gertrude Chiltern
- Minnie Driver - Miss Mabel Chiltern
- Rupert Everett - Lord Arthur Goring
- Julianne Moore - Mrs. Laura Cheveley
- Jeremy Northam - Sir Robert Chiltern
- John Wood - Lord Caversham
with
- Peter Vaughan - Phipps
- Ben Pullen - Tommy Trafford
- Marsha Fitzalan - Countess
- Lindsay Duncan - Lady Markby
- Neville Phillips - Mason
- Nickolas Grace - Vicomte de Nanjac
- Simon Russell Beale - Sir Edward
- Anna Patrick - Miss Danvers
- Delia Lindsay - Lady Basildon
Stage production of The Importance of Being Earnest
- Denise Stephenson - Gwendolen
- Charles Edwards - Jack
- Nancy Carroll - Cecily
- Andy Harrison - Algernon
- Jill Balcon - Lady Bracknell
- Janet Henfrey - Miss Prism
- Toby Robertson - Canon Chasuble
and
- Michael Culkin - Oscar Wilde
- Oliver Parker - Bunbury
- Douglas Bradley - Brackpool
- Stephen May - Burlington
- Jeroen Krabbé - Baron Arnheim
- Susannah Wise - Young Mother
- Peter Parker - M.P. No. 1
- Oliver Ford Davies - Sir Hugo Danforth
- Neil Mendoza - M.P. No. 2
- John Thompson - The Speaker
