Colin Firth
/Actor
Frances O'Connor
/Actor
Rupert Everett
/Actor
Tom Wilkinson
/Actor
Anna Massey
/Actor
Judi Dench
/Actor
Edward Fox
/Actor
Reese Witherspoon
/Actor
Oliver Parker
/Director
Oliver Parker
/Writer
May 22, 2002
Comedy
Starring Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth, and Rupert Everett, here is the hilarious adventure of two dashing young bachelors and the outrageous deceptions they find themselves in over love! Whenever Worthing wants to leave his dull country life behind, he makes visits to the city posing as his fictitious "brother" Ernest. There, he becomes smitten with the ravishing Gwendolen. But when Worthing is in town, his playboy pal Algy is in the country and falling for Worthing's young and beautiful ward, Cecily 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.