The Importance of Being Earnest
Everybody Loves Ernest... But Nobody's Quite Sure Who He Really Is.
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
- Worldwide
- $17M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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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.
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Box Office & Release
The Importance of Being Earnest returned 1.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $15M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $17M
- Release date
- May 17, 2002
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- MPAA rating
- PG
- Language
- German, English
- Country
- France, United Kingdom
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