The read
Scores higher than 73% of the 1,969 1990s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes85%
Metacritic67/100
228 audience votes
Key crew
- Oliver ParkerDirector
- Oliver ParkerScreenplay
- Charlie MoleOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Cate BlanchettLady Gertrude Chiltern
- Minnie DriverMiss Mabel Chiltern
- Rupert EverettLord Arthur Goring
- Julianne MooreMrs. Laura Cheveley
- Jeremy NorthamSir Robert Chiltern
- Peter VaughanPhipps
- Ben PullenTommy Trafford
- Marsha FitzalanCountess
- Lindsay DuncanLady Markby
- John WoodLord Caversham
- Simon Russell BealeSir Edward
- Charles EdwardsJack
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Themes
blackmailbased on play or musicalsecurities, stocks and bonds british politicshouse of commonscommerce without conscience