At a Glance

An adaptation of the comedy by Oscar Wilde which tells the story of mistaken identity set during the Victorian era. Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing are a pair of bachelors who both have alter egos in order to increase their opportunities for having fun...

Detailed Information

Starring Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde), Colin Firth (Bridget Jones's Diary) and Rupert Everett (My Best Friend's Wedding), here is the hilarous adventure of the two dashing young bachelors and the outrageous deceptions they find themselves in over love. Whenever Worthing (Firth) wants to leave his dull country life behind, he makes visits to the city posing as his ficticious 'brother' Ernest. There he becomes smitten with the ravishing Gwendolen (Frances O'Connor - A.I.). But when Worthing is in town, his playboy pal Algy (Everett) is in the country and falling for Worthing's young and beautiful ward, Cecily (Witherspoon) - while also impersonating Ernest.

Pandemonium ensues when these two would-be Ernests find themselves face to face and in the predicament of explaining who they really are!