A Good Woman (film)
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| Directed by | Mike Barker |
| Produced by | Kim Barnes Alan Greenspan Steve Siebert Jonathan English Liam Badger Mikael Borglund Hilary Davis Jimmy de Brabant Michael Dounaev John Evangelides Duncan Hopper Rupert Preston Will Buck |
| Written by | Howard Himelstein Based on a play by Oscar Wilde |
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Helen Hunt Scarlett Johansson Tom Wilkinson |
| Music by | Richard G. Mitchell |
| Cinematography | Ben Seresin |
| Edited by | Neil Farrell |
| Distributed by | Lions Gate Entertainment |
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93 minutes |
| Country | United States United Kingdom Italy Spain |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $6,877,842 |
A Good Woman is a 2004 American-British-Italian-Spanish drama film directed by Mike Barker. The screenplay by Howard Himelstein is based on the 1892 play Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde. It is the fourth screen version of the work, following a 1916 silent film using Wilde's original title, Ernst Lubitsch's 1925 version and Otto Preminger's 1949 adaptation entitled The Fan.
Set in 1930, the film opens in New York City, where femme fatale Mrs. Erlynne finds that she is no longer welcomed by either the high-ranking men she has seduced or the society wives she has betrayed. Selling her jewelry, she buys passage on a liner bound for Amalfi, Italy, where she apparently sets her sights on newlywed Robert Windermere. When his car frequently is seen parked outside her villa, local gossips become convinced the two are having an affair.
Robert's demure wife Meg remains oblivious to the stories about the two circulating throughout the town, but when she discovers her husband's cheque register with numerous stubs indicating payments to Erlynne, she suspects the worst. What she doesn't know is that Erlynne actually is her mother, who has been extorting payments from Robert in return for keeping her secret. She is consoled with the advice, "Plain women resort to crying; pretty women go shopping."
In retaliation for what she believes is her husband's transgression, Meg wears a revealing gown to her twenty-first birthday celebration, attended by Erlynne - wearing the same dress - in the company of Lord Augustus, a wealthy, twice-divorced man who has proposed marriage to Erlynne. Complications ensue when Lord Darlington professes his love for Meg and implores her to leave her supposedly wayward husband, an invitation she accepts.
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