The Importance of Being Earnest
Everybody Loves Ernest... But Nobody's Quite Sure Who He Really Is.
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
Timing:
1:37 (97 min)
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Country
Production
Genre
Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Budget
$15 000 000
Revenue
$17 290 970
Director
Actors
Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Frances O'Connor, Anna Massey, Edward Fox, Patrick Godfrey, Charles Kay
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Barnaby Thompson, Uri Fruchtmann
Operator
Tony Pierce-Roberts
Composer
Charlie Mole
Artist
Audition
Celestia Fox
Editing
Short description
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...
What's left behind the scenes
- A film adaptation of the play of the same name by Oscar Wilde.
- Finty Williams, who played Lady Bracknell as a young dancer, is the daughter of Judi Dench, who played the older Lady Bracknell.
- Producers paid £50,000 to use West Wycombe as Jack's country house.
- During the film's final scene – the revelation of John Worthing's origins – sheet music of Edvard Grieg's compositions lies on the piano music stand in his living room.
- The scenes in which Rupert Everett slaps Colin Firth on the buttocks and kisses him on the cheek were improvised. However, director Oliver Parker liked Colin Firth’s stunned reactions in both instances so much that he decided to keep them.
- The scenes with Ernest's bill at the Savoy and the creditors who came to Jack's village are taken from material that Wilde cut from the play just before its publication.
- Producers paid £50,000 for the use of West Wycombe as Jack’s country house.
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