An Ideal Husband

Name: An Ideal Husband
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: June 18, 1999
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Julianne Moore, Rupert Everett

1999

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Miramax Films | Release Date: June 18, 1999 | PG-13

Starring: Julianne Moore, Rupert Everett

Summary: An adaptation of Oscar Wilde's romantic social satire. (Miramax)

Director: Oliver Parker

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 97 min

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Derek Elley

Shines like a freshly minted coin in Oliver Parker's adaptation. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

Parker has shaped the play to make it more film-friendly and relevant, but he has done so with such subtlety you would have to be a Wilde authority even to notice. Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

It all seems calculated to churn up excitement, a promise that there's lots of dazzle, glamour and intrigue to come. An Ideal Husband actually does deliver all those things, but mostly in a pleasurably understated way -- no need for the noisy signals. Read full review

Peter Rainer

Our familiarity with the actors, and their comfort in this period setting, lend the piece an unexpected air of naturalism. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Life at the top has rarely looked or sounded more fabulously elegant. Read full review

Ron Wells

The film is not without its problems, some inherent to Wilde's original play. Read full review

Ella Taylor

Parker has boiled An Ideal Husband into a thuddingly unimaginative costume drama laden with frocks, riding crops, servile butlers and very good actors desperately treading water. Read full review

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Habibiehakim

May 18, 2022

I must admit that i still don't get it at near first half of the movie, i mean i get the story but i feel like it just uninteresting and i'm just not involved with it and the characters of the movie, then magicly as the time goes, it grows it grows and it grows till the end of the film andI must admit that i still don't get it at near first half of the movie, i mean i get the story but i feel like it just uninteresting and i'm just not involved with it and the characters of the movie, then magicly as the time goes, it grows it grows and it grows till the end of the film and somehow someway i ended up loving it, it grows slowly that i did finally invested to the story, i was finally get into these people, and i was care about it, i was laugh at it, and i was happy at it at the end, so overall An Ideal Husband is a mixed at first and it's a good at the end and to the rest of the movie.… Expand

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DickM.

Feb 11, 2006

I had never heard of this film even though I am a movie nut but I recorded it because I found Julianne Moore's name in the cast. I am still congratulating me on my instincts or my good luck. It was great fun all the way. Leave it to the Brits.

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