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.

Cate Blanchett
as Lady Gertrude Chiltern

Minnie Driver
as Miss Mabel Chiltern

Rupert Everett
as Lord Arthur Goring

Julianne Moore
as Mrs. Laura Cheveley

Jeremy Northam
as Sir Robert Chiltern

Peter Vaughan
as Phipps

Ben Pullen
as Tommy Trafford

Marsha Fitzalan
as Countess

Lindsay Duncan
as Lady Markby

John Wood
as Lord Caversham
CinemaSerf
"Sir Robert Chiltern" (Jeremy Northam) is a British cabinet minister with a secret! He is determined that it remain exactly that - from his wife (Cate Blanchett) and from his political masters. Perhaps not too shrewdly, he turns to his rather underwhelming pal "Lord Goring" (Rupert Everett) whom he ...