A Good Woman (2006)
A Good Woman (2006)
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Critic Consensus: This adaptation of Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan lacks bite due to liberties taken with the source material, coupled with uneven performances.
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Cast
as Mrs. Erlynne
as Meg Windermere
as Tuppy
as Lord Darlington
as Robert Windermere
as Contessa Lucchino
as Lady Plymdale
as Cecil
as Mrs. Stutfield
as Dumby
as Alessandra
as Francesca
as Waiter Joe
as Hotel Desk Clerk
as Paulo
as Giuseppina
as Old Man
as Antique Shop Keeper
as Dress Shop Salesgirl
as Dress Shop Owner
as Stella's Maid No. 1
as Stella's Maid No. 2
as Mrs. Gowper
Critic Reviews for A Good Woman
All Critics (81) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (30) | Rotten (51) | DVD (2)
... willfully odd movie ...
A wet teabag of a movie.
A Good Woman suffers from a staggeringly bad miscasting of its central role and from a cut-and-paste screenplay that substitutes random insertions of Wilde epigrams for character.
Something is wrong with A Good Woman: The lightning never strikes. It's never quite alive.
Wilde isn't supposed to be lovely, or charming. He's supposed to be funny, wicked, rude and as full of serious feeling as a lavender butterfly.
A Good Woman is such a dreary affair that it makes you wonder whether the last Wilde adaptation -- the critically lambasted The Importance of Being Earnest with Reese Witherspoon -- was really that bad after all.
Audience Reviews for A Good Woman
A woman suspects her husband of infidelity when an older woman who has a sullied reputation comes to town. Why do modern directors and writers think they are smarter than some of the best writers in the English language? In this case, Oscar Wilde's great play Lady Windemere's Fan gets distorted, the worst sin coming in the third act of the film. In addition to alterations in the plot, writer Howard Himelstein interjects some of Wilde's random witticisms into the script; for example, there is little reason why America being the only country to go from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between should be included in the film. It's funny, of course, but out of place. Helen Hunt does not deliver a strong performance. I often thought that Wilde's sophisticated dialogue puts Hunt out of her element, and Scarlett Johannson isn't much better. Obviously the Britons, Tom Wilkinson and Stephen Campbell Moore aren't similarly affected. Overall, the source material is strong, but the film isn't.
Super Reviewer
What a strange title... almost all the women pissed me off in this movie. I take that back; all the characters pissed me off. There is so much deceit, cheating, and dishonesty going about this plot that we, as the audience, don't know who to root for. There's a group that are the gossipers, Helen Hunt's the seductress, Scarlett Johansson wavers between loyalty and betrayal, and worst of all, Stephen Campbell Moore tries his hardest to break the bond of marriage to satiate his want to sleep with a hot girl. Yeah, you heard me; Campbell Moore says that he does it for the sake of "love" but I call it a booty call, and I make that assumption based on his annoying ass character's mannerisms and actions. What particularly annoyed me the most was how almost everyone within this movie was NOT genuine until the movie decides to wrap everything up with a happy, feel-good ending. "A Good Woman" is put together sloppily with very generic techniques that add nothing to the subpar plot with some of the most annoying side characters I've seen in a very long time. This movie is not worth a watch.
Super Reviewer
its an alright film
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A Good Woman Quotes
| Contessa Lucchino: | Crying is the refuge of plain women. Pretty women go shopping! |
| Lord Darlington: | Marital bliss is a great burden to place on two people.Sometimes a third person is needed to lighten the load. |
| Tuppy: | Oh, I like a good read myself. But nothing too laborious. I don't want to tamper with natural ignorance. It's the key to happiness. |
| Mrs. Erlynne: | Do you really think so? |
| Tuppy: | Oh, absolutely. Good health, it's important but ignorance is the key. Too much knowledge and you're doomed. |
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