An Ideal Husband

“He just doesn't know it yet.”

6.5(219)19991h 37m

DramaComedyRomance

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 Parker

Budget

$14.0M

Revenue

$18.5M

Cast

Cate Blanchett

Lady Gertrude Chiltern

Minnie Driver

Miss Mabel Chiltern

Rupert Everett

Lord Arthur Goring

Julianne Moore

Mrs. Laura Cheveley

Jeremy Northam

Sir Robert Chiltern

Peter Vaughan

Phipps

Ben Pullen

Tommy Trafford

Marsha Fitzalan

Countess

Lindsay Duncan

Lady Markby

John Wood

Lord Caversham

Simon Russell Beale

Sir Edward

Charles Edwards

Jack

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

2y ago

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 parliam...