An Ideal Husband (film)

Infobox Film
name = An Ideal Husband


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director = Oliver Parker
producer =Barnaby Thompson
Bruce Davey
Uri Fruchtmann
writer = Oliver Parker
(based on the play by Oscar Wilde)
starring = Cate Blanchett
Minnie Driver
Rupert Everett
Julianne Moore
Jeremy Northam
music = Charlie Mole
cinematography = David Johnson
editing = Guy Bensley
distributor = Miramax Films
released = 16 April 1999
runtime = 97min
country = UK
awards = Evening Standard British Film Awards (Best Actor for Jeremy Northam)
language = English
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imdb_id = 0122541

"An Ideal Husband" is a 1999 feature film based on the play by Oscar Wilde.

Starring Jeremy Northam, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Minnie Driverand Oscar winning actress Cate Blanchett. Directed by Oliver Parker.

It was selected as Cannes Film Festival's closing film.

ynopsis

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.

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

External links

*imdb title|id=0122541|title=An Ideal Husband