An Ideal Husband

“He just doesn't know it yet.”

Sir Robert Chiltern (Jeremy Northam) is a rising government minister in London, well-off and married to the devoted Lady Gertrude (Cate Blanchett). Then Mrs. Cheveley (Julianne Moore) arrives with evidence of a misdeed from his past, and Oliver Parker sends him to his friend Lord Goring (Rupert Everett), an idler his own father despairs of. Goring knows the lady of old, and for once he stops joking.