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Article: OSCAR WILDE GETS ``IDEAL'' TREATMENT.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 2, 1999
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Byline: MAL VINCENT, MOVIE CRITIC
FORGET ABOUT noisy, inane ``Wild Wild West.'' Wild, wild Wilde is on the screen.
``An Ideal Husband'' has the ideal cast for an ideal adaptation of a too-seldom-performed Oscar Wilde play. The only special effects it needs are witty lines. Add a particular note of phony elegance and you have the makings of a turn-of-the-century comedy that is as hip as anything on screen. As current now as it was in the 1890s, it's all husbands with roving eyes and wives with conniving plans to control them. Just ignore the fact that the characters wear different clothes and that it's set at the turn of another century.
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