Burlington

An Ideal Husband (1999)

Actors: Jeroen Krabbé (actor), Bruce Davey (producer), Julianne Moore (actress), Lindsay Duncan (actress), Cate Blanchett (actress), John Wood (actor), Minnie Driver (actress), Rupert Everett (actor), Oliver Ford Davies (actor), Peter Vaughan (actor), Nickolas Grace (actor), Doug Bradley (actor), Neville Phillips (actor), Jean Bourne (miscellaneous crew), Oscar Wilde (writer),

Plot: 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.

Keywords: 36-year-old, argument, bachelor, bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, based-on-play, bath-house, bathhouse, bet, blackmail
Genres: Comedy, Romance,
Taglines: He just doesn't know it yet.

Quotes:

Lord Arthur Goring: To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Sir Robert Chiltern: If you are suggesting, Sir Edward, that my position in society owes anything to my wife, you are utterly mistaken. It owes everything to my wife.

Lord Arthur Goring: Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

Lord Arthur Goring: Excuse me a moment. I'm in the middle of my performance of the attentive son.

Mabel: To look at a thing is quite different from seeing a thing, and one does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

Lord Arthur Goring: [to statue] It is a great nuisance. I can't find anyone else to talk to. I'm so full of interesting information, I feel like the latest edition of something or other. Well, after some consideration... so much to do, there's only one thing to be done. There comes a time in every son's life when he must, indeed, follow his father's advice: I shall go to bed at once.

Lord Caversham: Married yet?::Lord Arthur Goring: Ask me again in half an hour.

Countess: Aren't you going to congratulate me?::Lord Arthur Goring: Congratulations.::Countess: Aren't you going to ask what for?::Lord Arthur Goring: What for?::Countess: I've made a great decision. I've decided to get married.::Lord Arthur Goring: My God! Who to?::Countess: That part is yet to be decided.

Tommy Trafford: Miss Mabel, I hope you'll be able to make our usual appointment, as I have something very particular I wish to say to you. Good day, ladies.::Mabel: When Tommy wants to be romantic, he talks to one just like a doctor.

Lord Caversham: I don't know how you stand society. A lot of damned nobodies talking about nothing.::Lord Arthur Goring: I love talking about nothing, Father. It's the only thing I know anything about.::Lord Caversham: That is a paradox, sir. I hate paradoxes.

Honour, Profit & Pleasure (1985)

Actors: T.P. McKenna (actor), James Villiers (actor), Simon Callow (actor), Ann Skinner (producer), Hugh Grant (actor), Jonathan Hyde (actor), Cyril Luckham (actor), Christopher Benjamin (actor), George Akers (editor), Alan Devlin (actor), Bernard Hepton (actor), Frederick Schiller (actor), John Moffatt (actor), Michael Whyte (producer), Pauline Jameson (actress),

Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance,