The Importance of Being Earnest
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 27, 2021
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Miramax
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench & Tom Wilkinson | |
Performer: | Anna Massey, Edward Fox, Patrick Godfrey, Charles Kay & Marsha Fitzalan | |
Directed by | Oliver Parker | |
Edited by | Guy Bensley | |
Screenplay by | Oliver Parker | |
Original story by | Oscar Wilde | |
Composition by | Charlie Mole | |
Produced by | Barnaby Thompson | |
Director of Photography: | Tony Pierce-Roberts | |
Executive Production by | Uri Fruchtmann |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Fitting comfortably with the otherwise Brit cast, Witherspoon instantly flashes her charm...
Variety
Rating: 4.5/5 --
The ability to compress such a hilariously complex story into 97 minutes of film is a tribute both to Wilde's astounding economy with words and Parker's mastery of his source material.
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...[The cast] is a dream assemblage....[Witherspoon's] beauty, poise and insouciance make her the center of attention in every scene she's in...
Box Office
Rating: 2/5 --
Always destined to be measured against Anthony Asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation.
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RTÉ (Ireland)
You might suppose that Oscar Wilde's theatrical evergreen is indestructible. But that would be to reckon without the intervention of 'writer'/director Parker, who really makes a pig's ear of this silk purse.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/4 --
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TheMovieReport.com
...Everett, whose scenes with Firth are a droll delight, nails every sly laugh. And Witherspoon adds her own legally blond American sparkle to this British party...
Rolling Stone
Product Description:
In his second adaptation of an Oscar Wilde play, writer-director Oliver Parker (AN IDEAL HUSBAND) assembles a peerless cast to engage in this witty comedy of manners and mistaken identity. In 1890s London, rakish Algernon Montcrieff (Rupert Everett, who also starred in HUSBAND) runs into his friend, Jack Worthing (Colin Firth), who is in town to propose marriage to Algy's wildly romantic cousin, Gwendolen (Frances O'Connor). When returning a cigarette case to Jack, Algy reads the inscription, and discovers his friend has two secrets. Jack has created a devilish younger brother/alter ego called "Ernest" to hide his own misdeeds, and has a beautiful young ward named Cecily (Reese Witherspoon), whom he wants to keep clear of the roguish Algy. While Jack deals with the large obstacle standing between him and Gwendolen--namely, her mother, the imposing Lady Bracknell (a wonderfully imperious Judi Dench)--Algy devises a way to meet Cecily. The confusion and hilarity come to a peak when Algy arrives at Jack's country manor posing as Ernest in order to woo Cecily, and Gwendolen runs away to the country to be with Jack--whom she knows as Ernest. The stellar cast and Wilde's clever words make for genuine entertainment.