The Importance of Being Earnest

2002 • 93 minute

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Starring Reese Witherspoon (LEGALLY BLONDE), Colin Firth (BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY), and Rupert Everett (MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING), here is the hilarious adventure of two dashing young bachelors and the outrageous deceptions they find themselves in over love! Whenever Worthing (Firth) wants to leave his dull country life behind, he makes visits to the city posing as his fictitious "brother" Ernest. There, he becomes smitten with the ravishing Gwendolen (Frances O'Connor, A.I.). But when Worthing is in town, his playboy pal Algy (Everett) is in the country and falling for Worthing's young and beautiful ward, Cecily (Witherspoon) -- while also impersonating Ernest! Pandemonium ensues when these two would-be Ernests find themselves face-to-face and in the predicament of explaining who they really are!

Graderings en resensies

This modern adaptation misses the point of the play. It might be entertaining for today's audiences, but it does not capture the intention that Wilde had when writing the play.

Even if it missed a bit of Wilde's intention, the acting was superb and the costuming was on point. The adaptation remains a rather hilarious comedy of errors where everyone wins in the end.

Fantastic version of one of my favorite classic regency (sort of) comedies.