An Ideal Husband
Jan 14 1999
•2h 37m
•Drama, Comedy, Romance
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.
Cast
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Cate Blanchett
Lady Gertrude Chiltern
Minnie Driver
Miss Mabel Chiltern
Rupert Everett
Lord Arthur Goring
Julianne Moore
Mrs. Laura Cheveley
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