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05/11/01
An Ideal Husband (1999)
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Reviews Counted:54
Fresh:47
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: Brevity is the soul of wit, eh? This adaptation gets to the nitty gritty of Wilde's stage piece and plays on eternal human foibles.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Sir Robert Chiltern (Northam) is a successful Government minister with a loving wife. He is threatened when a lady (Moore) appears with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help... [More]
Starring: Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver
Director: Oliver Parker
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This Husband tries desperately to squeeze itself into the trim style of other bustle and bonnet faves, but it's a bad fit.
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Pleasantly diverting, but unlikely to inspire the kind of deep thinking about hypocrisy and unreasonable standards of virtue that Wilde intended
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All this less-than-ideal Husband proves is there are few folks who have the sense to leave classic text alone.
03/07/02
[T]his Husband plods and ambles and bears the burden of a soundtrack that resembles a wimpy meditation tape.
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Top CriticTheir entire world was constructed around subtlety, and, in tune with that, the one word that can be used to describe An Ideal Husband is subtle.
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Alas, something went wrong between stage and screen...
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