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A Good Woman

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A Good Woman (2005)

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Reviews Counted: 77 Fresh: 30  Rotten:47 Average Rating: 5.4/10
 
Consensus: This adaptation of Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan lacks bite due to liberties taken with the source material, coupled with uneven performances. This adaptation of Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan lacks bite due to liberties taken with the source material, coupled with uneven performances. more
 
Rated: PG
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Theatrical Release: Feb 3, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $97,060
Synopsis:
Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson fight over the same rich young man in this sumptuously elegant and loose adaptation of Oscar Wilde's LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN. The setting for the action is moved from Victorian England's parlors to Italy's gorgeous Amalfi coast in the early 1930's. A... [More]
Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson fight over the same rich young man in this sumptuously elegant and loose adaptation of Oscar Wilde's LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN. The setting for the action is moved from Victorian England's parlors to Italy's gorgeous Amalfi coast in the early 1930's. A vacationing American couple, the Windermeres (Johansson and Mark Umbers), meet scandal when caught up in a web of expatriate British slander after Mr. Windermere apparently starts having an affair with the notorious gold-digger, Mrs. Erlynne (Hunt). Meanwhile, the debauched Lord Darlington (Stephen Campbell Moore) takes it upon himself to comfort the tearful and lovely Mrs. Windermere, and Tuppy (Tom Wilkinson), an older member of the British circle, sees there's a sweet woman being hurt by all the malicious gossip and falls for Mrs. Erlynne himself. The gossip may be malicious, but no one writes it as well as Wilde, and here his famed quips--many flown in from other plays--flourish in wild abundance. Johansson is a knockout, and there are lots of elegant costumes and intricately decorated Italian villas, all captured in an enticingly dusky cinematographic style. Performances vary in stylistic approach, with Wilkinson carrying the day as the well-intentioned, self-effacing Tuppy, the vulnerable human center of this dizzying ring of barbed witticisms and elegant subterfuge. [Less]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Moore, Stephen Campbell Moore

Director: Mike Barker
Story: Oscar Wilde
Screenwriter: Howard Himelstein
Composer: Richard G. Mitchell

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 13, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - English
  • Closed Captioned - English
  • Subtitles - English, Spanish - optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - Alan Greenspan - Producer, Mike Barker - Director
  • Trailers

Interactive Features:

  • Interactive Menus

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03/06/07 03:18 AM
Christopher Null
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Sermonizes in the manner Wilde satirized; the movie bends over backwards to assure the audience that marriage and monogamy, the butt of jokes throughout, are just and right.

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02/22/07 07:48 AM
Rex Roberts
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12/30/06 06:50 AM
Kenneth Turan
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If you enjoy the charming wit of films such as An Ideal Husband or Enchanted April, you'll probably be Wilde about A Good Woman.

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09/22/06 02:31 PM
Camerin Courtney
Christianity Today
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There's only one thing worse than being a period piece, and that's being an out-of-period piece.

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08/23/06 09:12 AM
Ken Hanke
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06/24/06 04:06 AM
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04/01/06 04:08 AM
Empire Magazine
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Hunt, grievously miscast as the worldly Mrs. Erlynne...ends up looking like a once-fresh teenager, beaten down by the years, playacting in Mommy's oversized threads on a rainy day.

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02/27/06 08:57 PM
Andy Klein
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02/18/06 04:04 AM
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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A bit of a muddle at the ending, but the performances are pleasant (Tom Wilkinson is outstanding) and the humour is quick and subversive.

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02/17/06 06:36 PM
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies
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... willfully odd movie ...

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02/17/06 05:46 PM
Liam Lacey
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While this film is certainly not a painful experience, it is certainly not up to the brilliance of Oscar Wilde's intent and voice.

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02/17/06 09:01 AM
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca
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A wet teabag of a movie.

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02/16/06 11:39 PM
Keith Phipps
Onion AV Club
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With its jellyfish direction, A Good Woman throws its actors overboard to see if they can swim.

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02/11/06 03:58 AM
Marrit Ingman
Austin Chronicle
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02/11/06 03:58 AM
Peter Sobczynski
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It's (Tom) Wilkinson who really saves the movie. His acting is always outstanding --- he makes it appear so effortless.

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02/08/06 09:20 AM
Jeanne Kaplan
Kaplan vs. Kaplan
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The working title for this film might have been 'Bartlett's Familiar Quotations as Spoken by Brits in Italy'.

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02/08/06 09:18 AM
David Kaplan
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It's brief, frivolous, and extremely entertaining even as some of it seems forced, and the film lacks the elegance of Wilde's wordplay.

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02/05/06 09:33 AM
Eugene Novikov
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Entertaining and stylish.

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02/04/06 04:02 PM
Phil Hall
Film Threat
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The famous Oscar Wilde wit tempered with gorgeous Italian sunsets. You could do worse.

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02/04/06 01:25 PM
Boo Allen
Denton Record Chronicle (TX)
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