A Good Woman PG
Seduction. Sex. Scandal.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 13, 2006
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tom Wilkinson, Helen Hunt & Scarlett Johansson | |
Performer: | Stephen Campbell Moore, John Standing, Stephen Moore & Mark Umbers | |
Directed by | Mike Barker | |
Screenwriting by | Howard Himelstein | |
Composition by | Richard G. Mitchell | |
Story by | Oscar Wilde | |
Director of Photography: | Ben Seresin | |
Executive Production by | Steven Siebert |
Entertainment Reviews:
Hunt, grievously miscast as the worldly Mrs. Erlynne...ends up looking like a once-fresh teenager, beaten down by the years, playacting in Mommy's oversized threads on a rainy day.
Los Angeles CityBeat
Rating: 3/4 --
If you enjoy the charming wit of films such as An Ideal Husband or Enchanted April, you'll probably be Wilde about A Good Woman.
Christianity Today
Rating: 2/4 --
Wilde isn't supposed to be lovely, or charming. He's supposed to be funny, wicked, rude and as full of serious feeling as a lavender butterfly.
Newark Star-Ledger
Rating: 3/5 --
A Good Woman is solid, uninventive entertainment. Special credit needs to go to John Bloomfield's costume design, which is an exquisitely detailed melange of tea dress and evening wear decadence. What more could you ask for?
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The List
Rating: 3/5 --
There's only one thing worse than being a period piece, and that's being an out-of-period piece.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: C --
A wet teabag of a movie.
AV Club
Lifeless
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CinePassion
Product Description:
Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson fight over the same rich young man in this sumptuously elegant and loose adaptation of Oscar Wilde's LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN. The setting for the action is moved from Victorian England's parlors to Italy's gorgeous Amalfi coast in the early 1930's. A vacationing American couple, the Windermeres (Johansson and Mark Umbers), meet scandal when caught up in a web of expatriate British slander after Mr. Windermere apparently starts having an affair with the notorious gold-digger, Mrs. Erlynne (Hunt). Meanwhile, the debauched Lord Darlington (Stephen Campbell Moore) takes it upon himself to comfort the tearful and lovely Mrs. Windermere, and Tuppy (Tom Wilkinson), an older member of the British circle, sees there's a sweet woman being hurt by all the malicious gossip and falls for Mrs. Erlynne himself. The gossip may be malicious, but no one writes it as well as Wilde, and here his famed quips--many flown in from other plays--flourish in wild abundance. Johansson is a knockout, and there are lots of elegant costumes and intricately decorated Italian villas, all captured in an enticingly dusky cinematographic style. Performances vary in stylistic approach, with Wilkinson carrying the day as the well-intentioned, self-effacing Tuppy, the vulnerable human center of this dizzying ring of barbed witticisms and elegant subterfuge.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 4,555
- UPC: 031398185789
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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