The Importance of Being Earnest
Release Date: May 22, 2002 - Wide Release
Distributor: Miramax Films
Film Genre: Romantic Comedy
Country: United States
Two young gents living in 1890s England have taken to bending the truth in order to put some excitement into their lives. Worthing (Firth) has invented a brother, Earnest, whom he uses as an excuse to leave his dull country life behind to visit the ravishing Gwendolyn (O'Connor). Montcrief (Everett) decides to take the name "Earnest" when visiting Worthing's young and beautiful ward, Cecily (Witherspoon) at the country manor. Things start to go awry when they end up together in the country and their deceptions are discovered - threatening to spoil their romantic pursuits.
TRIVIA
Oliver Parker directed the film An Ideal Husband (1999).