An Ideal Husband

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Cate Blanchett

Minnie Driver

Rupert Everett

Julianne Moore

Jeremy Northam

John Wood

Lindsay Duncan

Peter Vaughan

Jeroen Krabbe

Ben Pullen

Marsha Fitzalan

Neville Phillips

Nickolas Grace

Simon Russell Beale

Anna Patrick

Janet Henfrey

Douglas Bradley

Susannah Wise

Oliver Ford Davies

Nicky Kentish Barnes

Bruce Davey

Oliver Parker

Oscar Wilde

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10/10/2000

BBC Two - An Ideal Husband

An MP's perfect life is threatened by blackmail and corruption. With Cate Blanchett.

Adaptation of Oscar Wilde's comedy of manners. An MP's idyllic marriage is threatened by a blackmail plot.

Sir Robert Chiltern, a brilliant politician and a perfect gentleman, is the ideal husband for the morally upstanding Lady Chiltern. They have a widely envied marriage until charming Mrs Cheveley appears with the intention of revealing a dark secret from Chiltern's past.

Adaptation of Oscar Wilde's famous play.

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