The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
"They don't come any wilder than Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners, morals and morality!"
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👍 84%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 88%
(RT: 88%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Michael Denison as Algernon Moncrieff
Edith Evans as Lady Bracknell
Joan Greenwood as Gwendolen Fairfax
Dorothy Tutin as Cecily Cardew
Richard Wattis as Seton
Is The Importance of Being Earnest good?
Most people think so. 84% audience score, estimated from 126 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 88%.
Overview
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities. Wikipedia ↗
