A Good Woman (film)

A Good Woman is a 2004 drama film directed by Mike Barker. The screenplay by Howard Himelstein is based on the 1892 play Lady Windermeres Fan by Oscar Wilde. It is the fourth screen version of the work, following a 1916 silent film using Wildes original title, Ernst Lubitschs 1925 version and Otto Premingers 1949 adaptation entitled The Fan.

Roberts demure wife Meg remains oblivious to the stories about the two circulating throughout the town, but when she discovers her husbands cheque register with numerous stubs indicating payments to Erlynne, she suspects the worst. What she doesnt know is that Erlynne actually is her mother, who has been extorting payments from Robert in return for keeping her secret. She is consoled with the advice, Plain women resort to crying pretty women go shopping.In retaliation for what she believes is her husbands transgression, Meg wears a revealing gown to her twentyfirst birthday celebration, attended by Erlynne wearing the same dress in the company of Lord Augustus, a wealthy, twicedivorced man who has proposed marriage to Erlynne. Complications ensue when Lord Darlington professes his love for Meg and implores her to leave her supposedly wayward husband, an invitation she accepts. ........

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