DramaComedyRomance
An Ideal Husband
“He just doesn't know it yet.”
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.
Directed by Oliver Parker, Andrea Calderwood, Ralph Kamp
65
User score
223 votes
Status
Released
Released
January 14, 1999
Runtime
1h 37m
Language
English
Budget → Revenue
$14M → $18.5M
Top cast
Cate Blanchett
Lady Gertrude Chiltern
Minnie Driver
Miss Mabel Chiltern
Rupert Everett
Lord Arthur Goring
Julianne Moore
Mrs. Laura Cheveley
Jeremy Northam
Sir Robert Chiltern
Peter Vaughan
Phipps
Ben Pullen
Tommy Trafford
Marsha Fitzalan
Countess
Lindsay Duncan
Lady Markby
John Wood
Lord Caversham
Simon Russell Beale
Sir Edward
Charles Edwards
Jack
Oliver Ford Davies
Sir Hugo Danforth
Susannah Wise
Young Mother
John Thompson
The Speaker
Anna Patrick
Miss Danvers
Delia Lindsay
Miss Basilton
Denise Stephenson
Gwendolen
Jeroen Krabbé
Baron Arnheim
Michael Culkin
Oscar Wilde
