0 Comments on The Importance of Being Earnest
Trending
Top
New
The Importance of Being Earnest
Everybody Loves Ernest... But Nobody's Quite Sure Who He Really Is.
Everybody Loves Ernest... But Nobody's Quite Sure Who He Really Is.
Comedy, Drama, History, Romance - 2002
The Importance of Being Earnest
Stream or DVD
~$8.99/Month
Disc
$3.96
Buy
$14.99
Rent
$3.99
0 Comments
6.8
57%
60
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities...
Director:
,
Oliver Parker
Cast:
,
Tom Wilkinson
,
Reese Witherspoon
,
Frances O'Connor
,
Rupert Everett
,
Judi Dench
,
Colin Firth
,
Anna Massey

Similar

Same Director

The Importance of Being Earnest
An Ideal Husband
(1999)
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, an...
The Importance of Being Earnest
Johnny English Reborn
(2011)
The most prominent heads of state in the world begin gathering for a conference that could have a major impact on global politics. When MI-7 receives word that the Chinese premier has become the target of some high-powered killers, it falls on Johnny English to save the day. Armed with the latest high-tech weaponry and gadgets that wou...
The Importance of Being Earnest
Dorian Gray
(2009)
A vain London playboy offers his soul in exchange for eternal beauty in this adaptation of the chilling tale by author Oscar Wilde. Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special p...
The Importance of Being Earnest
An Ideal Husband
(1999)
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, an...
The Importance of Being Earnest
St. Trinian's
(2007)
When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the proper funds, the girls scheme to steal a priceless painting and use the profits to pull St. Trinian's out of the red.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Othello
(1995)
The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
Go to IMDb

6.8
Go to R. Tomatoes

57%

60

Details

Rated:
PG
Runtime:
97 min
Release date:
17 May 2002
Country:
FR, GB, US
Languages:
German, English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 wins & 2 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
The Importance of Being Earnest resonates and inspires rapid-fire bouts of laughter, perhaps even a few giggles from the author himself, whom posterity has rewarded the last laugh.
– Robert K. Elder,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jul 2002
rotten:
Wilde subtitled his masterpiece "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People." This movie seems intent on being a trivial comedy for trivial people.
– Peter Rainer,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
7 Aug 2004
rotten:
You might suppose that Oscar Wilde's theatrical evergreen is indestructible. But that would be to reckon without the intervention of 'writer'/director Parker, who really makes a pig's ear of this silk purse.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
This may be a less than ideal "Earnest," but it still has delights...
– David Ansen,
Newsweek,
1 Nov 2007
rotten:
[An] utterly miscalculated film adaptation of Wilde's play.
– Robert Koehler,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
See more...
Press esc to close