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An Ideal Husband (1999)
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Ratings: 6.8/10 from 8,985 users
Metascore:
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Reviews: 129 user | 99 critic | 25 from Metacritic.com 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... See full summary » Director:Oliver Parker |
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Nominated for 2 Golden Globes.
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| Rupert Everett | ... | ||
| Minnie Driver | ... | ||
| Cate Blanchett | ... | ||
| Ben Pullen | ... | ||
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Marsha Fitzalan | ... | |
| Julianne Moore | ... | ||
| Lindsay Duncan | ... | ||
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Neville Phillips | ... | |
| John Wood | ... | ||
| Jeremy Northam | ... | ||
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Nickolas Grace | ... | |
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Simon Russell Beale | ... | |
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Anna Patrick | ... | |
| Delia Lindsay | ... | ||
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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. Written by Jeremy Perkins <jwp@aber.ac.uk>
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EnglishRelease Date:
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Un mari idéal See more »Box Office
Budget:
$14,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£492,309 (UK) (18 April 1999) (182 Screens)Gross:
$18,535,191 (USA) (3 October 1999)Company Credits
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[whispers]
Gertrude: I lied.
[everyone laughs]
Gertrude: Oh, I need a drink!
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the gentlemen that is seen playing cards with Lord Goring in the Men's Club
when Lord Chiltern arrives. Bunbury is also a never-seen character in "The
Importance of Being Earnest", the play which is performed in the
background of several scenes of this film. See more »
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Trivia
The play attended by the characters in the movie is Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest." The tall, older man that addresses the audience from the stage at the end of the play represents Wilde who did in reality address the audience when his play first debuted. See more »Goofs
Factual errors: The Speaker is shown calling MPs to speak by naming their constituency ("The Honourable Member for Witney" etc). British MPs do address each other in this way, but the Speaker calls MPs to speak by naming them personally. See more »Quotes
Gertrude: The truth is, when I agreed to the story about the letter being intended for you and not for Arthur... well, the truth is... the truth is...[whispers]
Gertrude: I lied.
[everyone laughs]
Gertrude: Oh, I need a drink!
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Crazy Credits
The credits list Oliver Parker, the director, as playing "Bunbury", one ofthe gentlemen that is seen playing cards with Lord Goring in the Men's Club
when Lord Chiltern arrives. Bunbury is also a never-seen character in "The
Importance of Being Earnest", the play which is performed in the
background of several scenes of this film. See more »
Connections
Referenced in "Jeopardy!: 2005 College Championship Quarterfinal 5 (#22.45)" (2005) See more »
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