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An Ideal Husband
Film / 1999

An Ideal Husband

Directed by Oliver Parker
DramaComedyRomance

★ 6.5/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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

Cate BlanchettLady Gertrude Chiltern Minnie DriverMiss Mabel Chiltern Rupert EverettLord Arthur Goring Julianne MooreMrs. Laura Cheveley Jeremy NorthamSir Robert Chiltern Peter VaughanPhipps Ben PullenTommy Trafford Marsha FitzalanCountess Lindsay DuncanLady Markby John WoodLord Caversham Simon Russell BealeSir Edward Charles EdwardsJack
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Oliver Ford DaviesSir Hugo Danforth Susannah WiseYoung Mother John ThompsonThe Speaker Anna PatrickMiss Danvers Delia LindsayMiss Basilton Denise StephensonGwendolen Jeroen KrabbéBaron Arnheim Michael CulkinOscar Wilde Nickolas GraceVicounte de Nanjac

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