An Ideal Husband

Jan 14, 1999 | IMDB 6.5

97 min Watch Now

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.

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Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Northam, Peter Vaughan, Ben Pullen, Marsha Fitzalan, Lindsay Duncan, John Wood

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