Rent An Ideal Husband (1999)
3.2 of 5 from 54 ratings
1h 26min
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- Synopsis:
Robert Chiltern (James Wilby) is a rising politician and newly elected as Leader of the Council. To celebrate, his wife Gertrude (Trevyn McDowell) and sister Mabel (Karen Hayley) throw a party. Surrounded by his friends, he is honoured as a pillar of the community. But his celebration is to be short lived when Lady Markby (Prunella Scales), introduces him to Laura Chevely (Sadie Frost). Laura is as scheming as she is beautiful and knows a dark secret from Robert's past. She has a letter proving that Robert's fortune was founded by selling political secrets for money. She blackmails Robert into supporting a controversial development project to which Robert is bitterly opposed but in which she stands to make her own fortune. She threatens to make the scandal known to the newspaper unless he agrees to her terms. - Actors:
- James Wilby, Sadie Frost, Jonathan Firth, Trevyn McDowell, Robert Hardy, Karen Hayley, Prunella Scales, Tyler Butterworth, Tamara Beckwith, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Roger May, Mark Gillis, Tom McCabe, Philip Clayton Smith, Portobello, Tommy Tudor, Zygi Kamasa
- Directors:
- William P. Cartlidge
- Producers:
- Daniel Figuero, Zygi Kamasa
- Writers:
- Oscar Wilde, William P. Cartlidge
- Others:
- Oliver Parker, Peter King, Caroline Harris
- Aka:
- Oscar Wilde's 'An Ideal Husband'
- Studio:
- Ilc Prime
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Romance
