An Ideal Husband (1999 film)
An Ideal Husband | |
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Directed by | Oliver Parker |
Written by | Oliver Parker |
Based on | An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde |
Produced by | Barnaby Thompson Bruce Davey Uri Fruchtmann |
Starring | |
Cinematography | David Johnson |
Edited by | Guy Bensley |
Music by | Charlie Mole |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Pathé Distribution[1] |
Release date |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £6,350,000[2] |
Box office | £2,891,515 (in UK)[2] $18,542,974 (total) |
An Ideal Husband is a 1999 British film based on the 1895 play An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde. The film stars Jeremy Northam, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Minnie Driver and Cate Blanchett. It was directed by Oliver Parker.
It was selected as the 1999 Cannes Film Festival's closing film.[3]
Plot[]
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 to his friend Lord Goring for help, 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.
The plot of the film differs from the original Wilde play in a number of key respects. The episode of Mrs Cheveley's lost bracelet was removed, and the twists at the end are made more complex by the introduction of a bet between Lord Goring and Mrs Cheveley, and Lord Goring's need to ask the permission of Sir Robert Chiltern to marry his sister, Miss Mabel Chiltern.
Cast[]
- Cate Blanchett as Lady Gertrude Chiltern
- Minnie Driver as Miss Mabel Chiltern
- Rupert Everett as Lord Arthur Goring
- Julianne Moore as Mrs. Laura Cheveley
- Jeremy Northam as Sir Robert Chiltern
- John Wood as Lord Caversham
- Peter Vaughan as Phipps
- as Tommy Trafford
- Marsha Fitzalan as Countess
- Lindsay Duncan as Lady Markby
- as Mason
- Nickolas Grace as Vicomte de Nanjac
- Simon Russell Beale as Sir Edward
- as Miss Danvers
- Delia Lindsay as Lady Basildon
Reception[]
The film received positive reviews from critics. Paper Magazine called it a "Witty comedy". It received a positive review from Roger Ebert. Entertainment Weekly called it "Delightful". The New York Observer said it was "Immensely entertaining". On Rotten Tomatoes it has a positive review rating of 86% Fresh, based on 65 critics.[4]
Awards[]
Julianne Moore was nominated for the Chicago Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress, a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical, and a Golden Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical. Moore won the National Board of Review award for Supporting Actress for her performances.
Everett received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
The film was nominated for awards in three BAFTA categories: Oliver Parker for Best Adapted Screenplay, Caroline Harris for Best Costume Design, and Peter King for Best Make-up and Hair.[5]
References[]
- ^ "An Ideal Husband (1999)". BBFC. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ a b Alexander Walker, Icons in the Fire: The Rise and Fall of Practically Everyone in the British Film Industry 1984-2000, Orion Books, 2005 p. 273.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: An Ideal Husband". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ "An Ideal Husband". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ "Film in 2000 | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
External links[]
- 1999 films
- English-language films
- British films
- 1999 comedy films
- British comedy films
- British films based on plays
- Films based on works by Oscar Wilde
- Films directed by Oliver Parker
- Films produced by Bruce Davey
- Icon Productions films
- Films set in London
- 1990s English-language films