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An Ideal Husband
“He just doesn't know it yet.”
6.5 / 10• 1999• 1h 37m•PG-13• English
DramaComedyRomance
Storyline
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 & Crew
Cate Blanchett
Lady Gertrude Chiltern
Lead
Minnie Driver
Miss Mabel Chiltern
Rupert Everett
Lord Arthur Goring
Julianne Moore
Mrs. Laura Cheveley
Jeremy Northam
Sir Robert Chiltern
Peter Vaughan
Phipps
BP
Ben Pullen
Tommy Trafford
Marsha Fitzalan
Countess
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Oliver Parker's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. An Ideal Husband is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
