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Wilde
Directed by
Brian Gilbert
R
1997
1h 58m
Drama
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6.9
72%
72%
6.6
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The turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality.
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Cast of Wilde
Stephen Fry
Oscar Wilde
Jude Law
Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
Vanessa Redgrave
Lady Speranza Wilde
Jennifer Ehle
Constance Lloyd Wilde
Gemma Jones
Lady Queensberry
Judy Parfitt
Lady Mount-Temple
Michael Sheen
Robbie Ross
Zoë Wanamaker
Ada Leverson 'Sphinx'
Tom Wilkinson
Marquess of Queensberry
Ioan Gruffudd
John Gray
Orlando Bloom
Rent Boy
James D'Arcy
First Friend
Andrew Havill
Algernon
Jason Morell
Ernest Dowson
Matthew Mills
Lionel Johnson
Peter Barkworth
Charles Gill
Adam Garcia
Jones
Joseph May
First Miner
Orlando Wells
Undergraduate
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Wilde Ratings & Reviews
Charles London
March 7, 2025
Fittingly, actor Stephen Fry brilliantly portrays the brilliant playwright and humorist, Oscar Wilde. The cruel scandal that marred and shortened Wilde's career cheated the world of his supreme intelligence and extraordinary wit.
Variety
Derek Elley
A tony biopic that manages to combine an upfront portrayal of the scribe's gayness with an often moving examination of his broader emotions and artistic ideals.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Stephen Fry is extraordinary as Oscar Wilde, but the movie lacks balance and finesse and comes across as a TV movie of the week.
Blunt Review
Emily Blunt
Stephen Fry captures Wilde completely.
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
[Stephen Fry] was born to play Oscar Wilde!
Nick's Flick Picks
Nick Davis
Julian Mitchell's script freely doles out all kinds of pithy, self-conscious bon mots among its cast, but doesn't bother to flesh out convincingly the emotional conflicts and dramas in which the characters find themselves.
Flipside Movie Emporium
Rob Vaux
Fry is great, though the film struggles to make a lasting impression.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Likely to remain the definitive screen treatment of Oscar Wilde for years to come.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Bosie is one of history's legendary bad boyfriends, and Jude Law plays him to the hilt. He's spoiled and angry, flies into bug-eyed rages and seems bent on destroying Wilde and his work.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Stephen Fry brings a depth and gentleness to the role that says what can be said about Oscar Wilde: that he was a funny and gifted idealist in a society that valued hypocrisy above honesty.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Wilde examines the nature of love, its obsessiveness, self-abnegation, generosity, blindness, and transcendence.
Salon.com
Carol Lloyd
The closest thing the movie has to a point of view is a tendentious and mystifying voice-over, in which Fry reads excerpts from Wilde's fairy tale about a selfish giant who banishes his children from his garden.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Mr. Fry's warmly sympathetic performance finds the gentleness beneath the wit. He conveys the sense of a man at the mercy of forces he cannot control, not least of them his own brittle genius.
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