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The Importance of Being Earnest

2002
★ 6.8 / 10
In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym (Earnest) for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
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Reviews
★★★★★
I watched this with low expectations, but I was very pleasantly surprised! The whole film has an air of absurdity, but without quite crossing the line of impossibility. Everett and Firth are perfect and extremely watchable as Jack and Algie, while Reese Wither...
★★★★★
The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the wittiest plays in the English language. I think I know it fairly well, having directed it once and performed in it once (Alegernon). Great plays cannot be forever preserved in Amber, never to change, always mounted...
★★★★★
I didn't like the new, added dialogue (Gwendolyn getting a tatoo, Lady Bracknell having been a musical hall dancer). However, the film is well-paced, has some very funny scenes (Algy and Jack's musical number, for example) and is well-acted. Frances O'Connor (...
★★★★★
There do seem to be some scathing reviews here, but I have to say that I loved it! I first started by reading the play, then watching the 1952 version, and then this latest reworking. The cast were absolutely stellar, though I'd go along with the criticism th...
★★★★★
Films like this need to be more widely available. It was showing at one theater 45 miles from my house, but it was worth the drive to go and see it. The script was witty, and seemed to be fairly true to the Oscar Wilde play (at least a lot of the funniest line...
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