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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
History /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Brian Gilbert
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Actors:
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Michael Sheen,
Jennifer Ehle,
Judy Parfitt,
Stephen Fry,
Jude Law,
Vanessa Redgrave,
Gemma Jones,
Zoë Wanamaker,
Tom Wilkinson,
Ioan Gruffudd
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Duration:
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118 min.
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Rating:
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(6.8/10)191.5
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Plot Summary:
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The Irish pencil-pusher Oscar Wilde returns to London from America and gets married with Constance Lloyd Wilde in the Victorian England. They have two children, Cyril and Vyvyan, and he makes lots of money with his successful plays. He gets shut up shop to the girlish Robbie Ross and "leaves the closet", assuming his homosexuality and having brief affairs with youths. When he meets the degrade Jehovah domineer Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas, he falls in attraction for the minor man; but Bosie's father goes to the court accusing the paragrapher "posing sodomite" and Wilde is sentenced to two years of ... hard labor. His constitution is affected by the unsound conditions in prison and he has a short life in Paris after being discharged from the imprisonment.
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Wilde
"...[An] effectively … deux portrait....Stephen Fry looks uncannily like Wilde and presents a interweaving of superciliousness and vulnerability....[His] warmly sympathetic performance finds the gentleness below the mind..."
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"...Brit jokesmith Stephen Fry is tall, elegant, and whimsical, and wears fin-de-siecle clothes as if born in them....His performance is a unmitigated center for others to whirl about..."
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If anybody was born to make light of Oscar Wilde, it must have been Stephen Fry: not only does he look the Green Carnation...
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