A Good Woman (2004)
Directed by Mike Barker
Genres - Drama, Romance, Comedy |
Sub-Genres - Sophisticated Comedy, Comedy of Manners, Period Film |
Release Date - Feb 3, 2006 (USA - Limited), Feb 3, 2006 (USA) |
Run Time - 93 min. |
Countries - Spain, United Kingdom, Italy, Luxembourg, United States |
MPAA Rating - PG
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Synopsis by Mark Deming
One of Oscar Wilde's most popular plays is given a new screen interpretation in this period comedy. In New York in the early '30s, Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt) is a widow who lives comfortably through the largesse of several married men, and when she runs out of wealthy suitors in Manhattan, she decides to find greener pastures among the wealthy elite of Italy's Amalfi coast. Mrs. Erlynne sets her sights on Robert Windermere (Mark Umbers), a wealthy Englishman who is married to the young, innocent and very beautiful Meg (Scarlett Johansson). Mrs. Erlynne gingerly tries to separate Robert from his wife and his money, fueling suspicions within Amalfi society as well as the audience that they are involved. Humiliated and ready to beat him at his own game, Meg begins to consider the advances of the handsome Lord Darlington (Stephen Campbell Moore), one of her husband's close friends. In the midst of all the attempted infidelity, the genially eccentric Tuppy (Tom Wilkinson) struggles to win Mrs. Erlynne's hand, while only one of the interconnected parties know that she carries a shocking secret. A Good Woman was based on Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, with its title drawn from that show's subtitle, "A Play About a Good Woman."
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aristocrat, high-society, lord, scandal, social-climber, wealth