An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband

97 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | April 15, 1999

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.

An Ideal Husband

97 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | April 15, 1999

An Ideal Husband
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.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Miramax, Pyramide Productions
Original title An Ideal Husband
Directors Oliver Parker
Writers Oscar Wilde, Oliver Parker

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

Peter Vaughan

as Phipps

Ben Pullen

as Tommy Trafford

Marsha Fitzalan

as Countess

Lindsay Duncan

as Lady Markby

John Wood

as Lord Caversham

Simon Russell Beale

as Sir Edward

Charles Edwards

as Jack

Oliver Ford Davies

as Sir Hugo Danforth

Susannah Wise

as Young Mother

John Thompson

as The Speaker

Anna Patrick

as Miss Danvers

Delia Lindsay

as Miss Basilton

Denise Stephenson

as Gwendolen

Jeroen Krabbé

as Baron Arnheim

Michael Culkin

as Oscar Wilde