Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 02/03/2006(USA
Release Date: 06/13/2006
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DDS2.0
Run Time: 93 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Lions Gate
One of
Oscar Wilde's most popular plays is given a new screen interpretation in this
period comedy. In New York in the early '30s,
Mrs. Erlynne (
Helen Hunt) is a widow who lives comfortably through the largesse of several married men, and when she runs out of wealthy suitors in Manhattan, she decides to find greener pastures among the wealthy elite of Italy's Amalfi coast.
Mrs. Erlynne sets her sights on
Robert Windermere (
Mark Umbers), a wealthy Englishman who is married to the young, innocent and very beautiful
Meg (
Scarlett Johansson).
Mrs. Erlynne gingerly tries to separate
Robert from his wife and his money, fueling suspicions within Amalfi society as well as the audience that they are involved. Humiliated and ready to beat him at his own game,
Meg begins to consider the advances of the handsome
Lord Darlington (
Stephen Campbell Moore), one of her husband's close friends. In the midst of all the attempted infidelity, the genially eccentric
Tuppy (
Tom Wilkinson) struggles to win
Mrs. Erlynne's hand, while only one of the interconnected parties know that she carries a shocking secret.
A Good Woman was based on
Wilde's
Lady Windermere's Fan, with its title drawn from that show's subtitle, "A Play About a Good Woman."
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
