The Importance of Being Earnest

A great film for people who love romance with a hint of comedy. It tells a good story with brilliant acting! A must see!!... Full review

doubleplus ungood (for all the fans of 1984) i hated this movie.. i had to watch it in english class and i must say its a piece.. it was something to pass the time..... Full review

I don`t know, maybe i`m not interested in that kind of literature, but Oscar Wilde`s name made me think "boring!". And this movie is just that: a boring piece of film. No actor succeded in this one, and Reese Whiterspoon is... Full review

this movie wouldnt even be fun to watch if it was made in th 1700's....i watched 5 minutes of it and i just turned it off...dont waste your money on this.....PLEASE... Full review

One of the most funny movies I have ever seen!!!! If you havent seen it yet I highly recomend that you do!! ;)... Full review

It was a great movie. I love Reese Witherspoon. She is my favorite actor. My drama class might be doing it. I hope we do because my whole class loved it.... Full review

This was a veery entertaining movie. A perfect depiction of Oscar Wilde's book, and very funny at some parts. I didn't really like Reese Witherspoon as Cecely, but I loved that "Lady Come Down" song. Overall, it was a good, satisfactory... Full review

The Importance of Being Earnest is a humorous tale. It's truely a British comedy because when people talk about absolutly nothing in that accent it becomes absolutly histerical. A good film for when you don't have to think about much.... Full review

Thrilling! I just got finished viewing this wondeful movie! What a ride! Excellent! Hilarious! Fantastic! Outstanding! I'm running out of adjectives! This is a truly wonderful movie with excellent acting by Colin Firth! A must see! You'll laugh so hard, you'll..... Full review

we watched this in english class after we read the play, and it is really really funny!!! i love british humor to begin with [monty python] and it was just great. rupert everett is so cool.... Full review

Oscar Wilde's classic play is perhaps the most subtle satire ever written, the most witty dialogue and the most fragile of dramatic creations. So good on you, Oliver Parker and cast, for maintaining the work that Wilde created and for giving us a new millennium's view of it. ... Full Review

Tom Wilkinson is excellent as Tuppy, the kindly aristocrat intent on marrying Mrs. Erlynne despite her reputation and desire to remain a pampered mistress. But for the most part, Wilde's sophisticated, sardonic dialogue has been capably adapted by screenwriter Howard Himelstein and director Mike Barker. ... Full Review

Judi Dench, Colin Firth, Rupert Everett and Reese Witherspoon making a good stab at an English accent if you cant make something at least fairly enjoyable with a cast this good, you deserve to have your directors licence revoked. In opening out Oscar Wildes identity-swapping farce for the screen, Oliver Parker has muddied up the story something rotten. ... Full Review

a capable and creative director....the film's flaws....Wilde's dialogue so crisply hilarious....the cast (which also includes Judi Dench, Anna Massey, and Tom Wilkinson) is so fine.... ... Full Review

To that end, Earnest is a perfect selection, as the author subtitled his play "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. Oliver Parker 's new adaptation boasts a fine cast capable of delivering the author's flamboyant epigrams ... Full Review

SYNOPSIS: Jack Worthing (Colin Firth) is a bachelor in his mid 30s at the turn of the 19th century, with a sedate and respectable lifestyle in the country, caring for his ward, the pretty 18 year old Cecily Cardew (Reese... ... Full Article

Buena Vista Home Entertainment. On shelves February 12. Colin Firth once again delves into the period piece costumes in this remake of Oscar Wilde's tale of romantic love and mistaken monikers. ... Full Article

By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 13, 2008 WHO'S WHO?: In one of the play's many instances of mistaken identity, Jack tries to embrace Miss Prism as his long-lost mother. ... Full Article

There have been at least a dozen film and TV versions of Oscar Wilde's 1892 play Lady Windermere's Fan, including a 1916 British silent, Otto Preminger's late-'40s Hollywood take, and productions from Germany (1935), China (1939), Mexico (1944), Argentina (1948),... ... Full Article

It's The Importance of Being Earnest , a dream movie with a dream cast.The latest film version of Oscar Wilde's play comes from the same writer-director, Oliver Parker, who adapted Wilde's An Ideal Husband in 1999. ... Full Article

Dench plays Lady Bracknell, and she has a lot of juicy lines in this adaptation. The story concerns two friends, John "Jack" Worthing (played by Colin Firth of "Bridget Jones' Diary") and Algernon "Algy" (played by Rupert Everett of "A ... Full Article