An Ideal Husband
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.
- Director
- Oliver Parker
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Humour
- Worldwide
- $19M
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Cast
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19 billed performers
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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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Box Office & Release
An Ideal Husband returned 1.3× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $14M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $19M
- Release date
- Jan 14, 1999
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- France, United Kingdom
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