An Ideal Husband (1999 film)

An Ideal Husband
UK Theatrical release poster
Directed byOliver Parker
Written byOliver Parker
Based onAn Ideal Husband
1895 play
by Oscar Wilde
Produced byBarnaby Thompson
Bruce Davey
Uri Fruchtmann
Starring
CinematographyDavid Johnson
Edited byGuy Bensley
Music byCharlie Mole
Production
company
Distributed byPathé Distribution[1] (United Kingdom)
Icon Entertainment International (Internationally)
Release date
  • 16 April 1999 (1999-04-16)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£6.3 million[2]
Box office£14.1 million (UK/US)

An Ideal Husband is a 1999 British film based on the 1895 play An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde. The film stars Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore and Jeremy Northam. It was directed by Oliver Parker.

It was selected as the 1999 Cannes Film Festival's closing film.[3]

  1. ^ "An Ideal Husband (1999)". BBFC. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  2. ^ Walker, Alexander (2005). Icons in the Fire: The Rise and Fall of Practically Everyone in the British Film Industry 1984-2000. Orion Books. p. 273. ISBN 978-0752864846.
  3. ^ "Festival de Cannes: An Ideal Husband". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 28 August 2021.