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An Ideal Husband [DVD] [1999]
enlarge	Director: Oliver Parker Actors: Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Jeremy Northam Studio: Pathe Distribution Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy New: £3.08 as of 25/11/2009 17:16 GMT details You Save: £9.91 (76%) New (9) Used (6) from £2.49 Seller: findprice Rating: 13 reviews Sales Rank: 5682 Format: PAL, Widescreen Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Original Language) Rating: Parental Guidance Region: 2 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 93 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060002830284 ASIN: B00004S8GV Theatrical Release Date: June 18, 1999 Release Date: April 10, 2000 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review For truly clever dialogue and a smartly structured plot, you can't go wrong with Oscar Wilde. Wilde's play IAn Ideal Husband/I 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 (IElizabeth/I, IOscar and Lucinda/I), Julianne Moore (IBoogie Nights/I, IShort Cuts/I), Minnie Driver (IGrosse Pointe Blank/I, IBig Night/I), Jeremy Northam (IThe Winslow Boy/I, IEmma/I), and especially Rupert Everett (IMy Best Friend's Wedding/I, IA Midsummer Night's Dream/I), 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 IWilde/I (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, IAn Ideal Husband/I will satisfy anyone looking for social satire or romantic comedy. --IBret Fetzer, Amazon.com/I

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 13 1 2 3 Next » the perfect social satire: one can not beat Oscar Wilde and Rupert Everett is the perfect incarnation June 10, 2008 Klaus van Amelrode 13 out of 13 found this review helpful 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. br / br /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.". br / br /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. br / br / Rupert Everett steals the show again August 23, 2002 Miranda Jollie (Hanwell, London) 22 out of 24 found this review helpful 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.pHowever 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... An Ideal dialogue film July 26, 2004 Angus Bell (Guisborough) 20 out of 22 found this review helpful 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.brThe 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 .... Seriously underrated film September 11, 2006 fkoepping77 (London) 10 out of 11 found this review helpful This is the sort of film that you really want to own. It loses nothing and gains detail the more often you watch it. Rupert Everett's lack of leading roles is a great loss to film, as he has the looks, timing and presence to carry off any number of romantic leads. I don't see what an actor's private proclivities have to do with what they portray on screen - Cary Grant being an interesting topic in that respect. Anyway, it's a fantastic script, a good plot, a serious message in a fluffy film with a happy ending. Perfect Sunday-night viewing. Witty Wise interpretation of Wilde November 5, 2000 kymm 3 out of 3 found this review helpful 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 impersonator. Perfect. Showing reviews 1-5 of 13 1 2 3 Next »

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