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An Ideal Husband

He just doesn't know it yet.

An Ideal Husband

1999-01-141 hour 37 minutes

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.

Oliver ParkerScreenplay

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Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett

Lady Gertrude Chiltern

Minnie Driver

Minnie Driver

Miss Mabel Chiltern

Rupert Everett

Rupert Everett

Lord Arthur Goring

Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore

Mrs. Laura Cheveley

Jeremy Northam

Jeremy Northam

Sir Robert Chiltern

Peter Vaughan

Peter Vaughan

Phipps

Ben Pullen

Ben Pullen

Tommy Trafford

Marsha Fitzalan

Marsha Fitzalan

Countess

Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Duncan

Lady Markby

John Wood

John Wood

Lord Caversham

Simon Russell Beale

Simon Russell Beale

Sir Edward

Charles Edwards

Charles Edwards

Jack

Oliver Ford Davies

Oliver Ford Davies

Sir Hugo Danforth

Susannah Wise

Young Mother

John Thompson

John Thompson

The Speaker

Anna Patrick

Anna Patrick

Miss Danvers