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.
- 6.5
- 1999
- Released
- 1h 37m
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
Delia Lindsay
Miss Basilton
Denise Stephenson
Gwendolen
Jeroen Krabbé
Baron Arnheim
Michael Culkin
Oscar Wilde
Nickolas Grace
Vicounte de Nanjac
Released
en
$14,000,000.00
$18,500,000.00
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- #based on play or musical
- #securities, stocks and bonds
- #british politics
- #house of commons
- #commerce without conscience
Reviews
"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 parliam