Wilde (1997)VHS | Cast list | | Stephen Fry | as | Oscar Wilde | | Jude Law | as | Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas | | Vanessa Redgrave | as | Lady Speranza Wilde | | Jennifer Ehle | as | Constance Lloyd Wilde | | Gemma Jones | as | Lady Queensberry | | Judy Parfitt | as | Lady Mount-Temple | | Michael Sheen | as | Robbie Ross | | Zoë Wanamaker | as | Ada Leverson | | Tom Wilkinson | as | Marquess of Queensberry | | Ioan Gruffudd | as | John Gray | | Matthew Mills | as | Lionel Johnson | | Jason Morell | as | Ernest Dowson | | Peter Barkworth | as | Charles Gill | | Robert Lang | as | C.O. Humphreys | | Philip Locke | as | Judge |
| | Crew list: | | Brian Gilbert (Director) | | Richard Ellmann (Writer) | | Julian Mitchell (Writer) |
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Review
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas, nicknamed Bosie. After legal action instigated by Bosie's father, the mad Marquess of Queensberry, Wilde refused to flee the country and was sentenced to two years at hard labour by the courts of an intolerant Victorian society. |
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