"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 parliamentary debate fast…
An Ideal Husband (1999)
He just doesn't know it yet.
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
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
Oliver Ford Davies
Sir Hugo Danforth
Susannah Wise
Young Mother
John Thompson
The Speaker
Anna Patrick
Miss Danvers
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What is An Ideal Husband about?
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…
When was An Ideal Husband released?
An Ideal Husband was released in 1999.
What genres does An Ideal Husband belong to?
An Ideal Husband is categorised as Drama, Comedy, Romance.
Who stars in An Ideal Husband?
The cast of An Ideal Husband includes Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Northam.