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The Importance Of Being Earnest

1992, Movie, G, 123 mins

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The notion of reworking The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde's classic if severely conventioned 1895 play, using a modern-dress African-American cast while retaining its London setting and most of Wilde's trademark epigrammatic dialogue is an idea whose time should never have come. This ill-conceived and artificial updating concerns the comic misadventures of two young aristocrats, Algernon (Wren T. Brown) and Jack (Daryl Roach), who each take on the name Ernest in o... read more leave a comment
Year: 1992
Rated G

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Cast
Brock Peters: Doctor Chausible
CCH Pounder: Miss Prism
Obba Babatunde: Lane
Wren T. Brown: Algernon
Chris Calloway: Gwendolyn
Lanei Chapman: Cecily

 

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