He just doesn't know it yet.
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
Director: Oliver Parker
Screenplay: Oliver Parker
Producer: Uri Fruchtmann, Barnaby Thompson, Bruce Davey
Director of Photography: David Johnson
Lady Gertrude Chiltern
Miss Mabel Chiltern
Lord Arthur Goring
Mrs. Laura Cheveley
Sir Robert Chiltern
Phipps
Tommy Trafford
Countess
Official UK Re-Release Trailer
An Ideal Husband - 1999 Trailer