Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- France, United Kingdom, United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- blackmail
- based on play or musical
- securities
- stocks and bonds
- british politics
- house of commons
- commerce without conscience
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Cate Blanchett
Lady Gertrude Chiltern
Minnie Driver
Miss Mabel Chiltern
Rupert Everett
Lord Arthur Goring
Julianne Moore
Mrs. Laura Cheveley
- Jeremy Northam — Sir Robert Chiltern
- Peter Vaughan — Phipps
- Ben Pullen — Tommy Trafford
- Marsha Fitzalan — Countess
- Lindsay Duncan — Lady Markby
- John Wood — Lord Caversham
- Simon Russell Beale — Sir Edward
- Charles Edwards — Jack
- Oliver Ford Davies — Sir Hugo Danforth
- Susannah Wise — Young Mother
- John Thompson — The Speaker
- Directed
- Oliver Parker
- Written
- Oliver Parker
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 227 ratings
- Studio
- Fragile Films, Icon Productions, Pathé, Arts Council of England, Miramax
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
