Whenever Jack Worthing slips away to London from his Hertfordshire estate he says he is going to see his (fictitious) wayward brother Ernest. Once there he keeps his privacy by calling himself Ernest – luckily so as his beloved Gwendolen declares she could only love an Ernest. Her cousin Algy is the one person who knows Jack’s secret and one day he travels down to the estate, announcing himself to Jack’s attractive ward Cecily as bad brother Ernest. Cecily is much taken with him and with his name, so on Jack’s return home and Gwendoen’s unexpectedly arrival it becomes clear there are both too many and too few Ernests earnestly courting. –IMDb
Oliver Parker (born 6 September 1960) is an English film director. Parker was born in London, the son of Lady Gillian, a writer and GP (medical practitioner), and Sir Peter Parker, formerly Chief executive of British Rail. His brother is actor Nathaniel Parker. —Wikipedia
What a hillarious film, i love this better than much a do about nothing. My fave quote will be this " I hope cecily i shall not offend you , if i state quite openly and frankly . You seem to me in every way the visible personification of absoulute perfection" Stephen fry said it once and i don't know he's quoting oscar wilde , i should have known because he's wilde in wilde