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An Ideal Husband [DVD] [1999]

DVD ~ Rupert Everett
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Jeremy Northam
  • Directors: Oliver Parker
  • Writers: Oliver Parker, Oscar Wilde
  • Producers: Andrea Calderwood, Barnaby Thompson, Bruce Davey, Nicky Kentish Barnes, Paul Tucker
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Pathe Distribution
  • DVD Release Date: 10 April 2000
  • Run Time: 93 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004S8GV
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,052 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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For truly clever dialogue and a smartly structured plot, you can't go wrong with Oscar Wilde. Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is not his best known, but this film adaptation has all the wit you could ask for and a cast with the chops to deliver it: Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth, Oscar and Lucinda), Julianne Moore (Boogie Nights, Short Cuts), Minnie Driver (Grosse Pointe Blank, Big Night), Jeremy Northam (The Winslow Boy, Emma), and especially Rupert Everett (My Best Friend's Wedding, A Midsummer Night's Dream), who tosses off perfect epigrams with unflappable aplomb. The plot hinges on Northam, a member of Parliament (the British governing body, not the funk band) with a skeleton in his closet who is blackmailed into a shady business deal by a lady of mystery (Moore), who turns out to be a loathed school chum of the parliamentarian's wife (Blanchett). Everything is resolved happily, but not until after some devious twists of fate, several mistaken identities, lots of comic banter, and much social skewering. Wilde, whose troubled life and public exposure of his homosexuality is chronicled in the movie Wilde (1997), has a sharp eye for hypocrisy and the artificial poses demanded by society--but political commentary never gets in the way of a smart laugh. Visually sumptuous and briskly paced, An Ideal Husband will satisfy anyone looking for social satire or romantic comedy. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

Special Features

1.85 Wide Screen
16:9 Wide Screen
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1
Theatrical Trailer
Featurette
Additional Footage
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars the perfect social satire: one can not beat Oscar Wilde and Rupert Everett is the perfect incarnation, 10 Jun 2008
By Klaus van Amelrode "kmcva" - See all my reviews
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An Ideal Husband is an 1895 play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of three days. "Sooner or later," Wilde notes, "we shall all have to pay for what we do." But he adds that, "No one should be entirely judged by their past.

The movie is classy and captures uppper-class London to perfection. The language is wonderful and the lines really amusing like "Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious" or "Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear" or "To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.".

If you like Oscar Wilde you will enjoy this movie as Rupert Everett here as Lord Goring really is the best movie actor to portray an Oscar Wilde character. Cate Blanchett - Lady Gertrude Chiltern -,Minnie Driver - Miss Mabel Chiltern, Julianne Moore - Mrs. Laura Cheveley, Jeremy Northam - Sir Robert Chiltern and John Wood - Lord Caversham - give splendig performances too.Director Oliver Parker has created a real gem.

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Rupert Everett steals the show again, 23 Aug 2002
By Miranda Jollie (Hanwell, London) - See all my reviews
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I'll be honest, I could watch Rupert Everett reading the phone book for 90 minutes and would probably give it five stars. However this is a perfect film for him and it's good to see him in a leading role rather than a gay cameo (sounds like a great tribute band...) for once. On the flip side, Jeremy Northam is colourless and Minnie Driver seems very uncomfortable in her role (try Grosse Pointe Blank to see how good she is when she's well cast), and like so many films (cf. My Best Friend's Wedding) it does flag a bit when Everett is off screen. Julianne Moore does an English accent so much these days I'm always faintly surprised to hear her speaking American and confusingly makes a more convincing Englishwoman than Driver.

However it's Rupert Everett's film through and through. Wilde's words are the words he was born to speak and it's very, very funny - director Oliver Parker has managed to successfully transfer a play to the big screen, a challenge many experienced directors have failed. Can't wait to see him reunite Rupert Everett with his Another Country co-star Colin Firth in The Importance of Being Earnest - but will tape my sides up in advance in case they split...

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An Ideal dialogue film, 26 July 2004
By Angus Bell "spideypsych" (Guisborough) - See all my reviews
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Having read the other reviews I have to slightly disagree with the overall tone - this is the perfect comedy of manners with outstanding performances by the whole cast. Jeremy Northam plays a gentle shy man conflicted by ambition and his morals whose wife Cate Blanchett puts him on a pedestal to worship. The subsequent revelation of the hypocrisy at the heart of their marriage is deliciously decorated by all the supporting cast who are manipulated by Rupert Everett enjoying the finest hour (or two!) of his career so far.
The DVD benefits enormously from a home cinema system as every word drips with double meaning! It is my favourite dialogue film of all time and far, far, better than The importance of being ....
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars This is real great comedy ¡¡
I love this film ¡¡ is an inteligent comedy , actors are superb ,everything is marvellous. Thanks amazon ,now i have it.
Published 12 days ago by Mariana Pineda

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely, lovely
Have seen this several times on TV and just had to have the DVD - if only to encourage others to watch it. Read more
Published 4 months ago by C. Elmore

3.0 out of 5 stars lovely and flawed
Vaguely inspired by Wilde -some quotations feel contrived indeed- this is a good film as long as you disregard its main theme, that of everybody's being imperfect and that real... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Furio

5.0 out of 5 stars Seriously underrated film
This is the sort of film that you really want to own. It loses nothing and gains detail the more often you watch it. Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2006 by fkoepping77

4.0 out of 5 stars A really good film
Marked down from 5 to 4 because of the poor sound production at times, but still worth watching nevertheless. Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2006 by Joe

4.0 out of 5 stars Funny period piece
A well-written romantic comedy by Oscar Wilde is given the "period" treatment by Oliver Parker ("The Importance of Being Earnest"), and survives. Read more
Published on 22 Dec 2002 by Marco Polo

5.0 out of 5 stars Gets better and better
It's a period film, fancy dresses, etc., but it's actually a very witty comedy. You have to stop laughing or you'll miss something. Read more
Published on 20 Dec 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars Witty & Wise interpretation of Wilde
Brilliant cast, witty script, perfect costumes and locations - what more could a cinema fan want? Rupert Everett steals almost every scene and there's even a cameo by an Oscar... Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2000 by kymm

5.0 out of 5 stars Clever, funny and even the blokes enjoyed it
Boys, if you want to hire a film which will please the missus but won't bore you rigid, give it a try. Its at least worth it for Minnie Driver and Cate Blanchett
Published on 27 Jun 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars Triumphantly faithful adaptation of Wilde's jewel of a play
Sluggishly paced and murkily lit to begin with, this builds into a triumphantly faithful adaptation of Wilde's brilliant jewel of a play. Read more
Published on 26 May 2000 by Steve

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