“He just doesn't know it yet.”
An Ideal Husband (1999)
January 14, 19991h 37mEN
6.5
219 votes
Overview
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.
Director
Oliver ParkerWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$14.0M
Revenue
$18.5M
Production Companies
Fragile FilmsIcon ProductionsPathéArts Council of EnglandMiramax
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6.0"Sir Robert Chiltern" (Jeremy Northam) is a British cabinet minister with a secret! He is determined that it remain exactly that - from his wife (Cate Blanchett) and from his political masters. Perhaps not too shrewdly, he turns to his rather underwhelming pal "Lord Goring" (Rupert Everett) whom he knows is well acquainted with his new found nemesis "Mrs. Cheveley" (Julianne Moore). With a parliamentary debate fast looming, and "Sir Robert" - in his role as a junior minister having a crucial role in a substantial government investment in Argentina - having to endorse or not, he finds himself i…
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