An Ideal Husband

Comedy, Romance

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
Lindsay Duncan	Lady Markby
Peter Vaughan	Phipps
John Wood	Lord Caversham
Ben Pullen	Tommy Trafford
Marsha Fitzalan	Countess
Nancy Carroll (II)
Charles Edwards (VI)
Jeroen Krabbe

Director	Oliver Parker
Producer	Bruce Davey; Nicky Kentish Barnes; Andrea Calderwood; Uri Fruchtmann
Writer	Oliver Parker; Oscar Wilde

The movie "An Ideal Husband" is based upon the stage play written by Oscar Wilde. The story revolves Sir Robert Chiltern (Jeremy Northam), a man considered by all to be the ideal husband as he is a man of integrity, success, and is passionately in love with his wife, Lady Gertrude Chiltern (Cate Blanchett). However, an indiscretion from his past could jeopardize all that he knows and loves upon the arrival of a dangerously well-informed woman, and Lady Gertrude's old-school rival, Mrs. Laura Cheveley (Julianne Moore). Mrs. Cheveley blackmails Sir Robert with incriminating information at which point Sir Robert immediately asks for assistance from his notoriously lazy and selfish friend Lord Arthur Goring (Rupert Everett). All of these turn of events are viewed by Sir Robert's free spirited sister, Miss Mabel Chiltern (Minnie Driver), who is determined to never marry as the concept of an ideal husband cannot exist.