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An Ideal Husband

1999

Oliver Parker

Rupert Everett, Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore, Minnie Driver ...

6.1

1,292

Comedy Sir Robert Chiltern Chiltern (Jeremy Northam) 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 Arthur Goring (Rupert Everett), 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.

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'An Ideal Husband' works because Wilde created an expert mechanism (...) for manipulating the plot and characters (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Everett's Arthur is the subtlest and deepest performance in an ensemble that meshes fairly well while never quite finding the seamless groove of a first-rate stage production"
		Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"A delicious oddity: It looks back with fondness to the last century's greatest wit while finding a thoroughly modernist sensibility"
		James Berardinelli ReelViews	"A delightful parfait - an irresistible concoction of brilliant dialogue, sumptuous set design, top-notch acting, and a plot littered with Machiavellian twists (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"An elegantly funny film version of Oscar Wilde’s play (...) Everett, who gives the performance of his career, is perfection."

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