The Importance of Being Earnest

2002 · 97 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 25,295 VOTES · DIR. Oliver Parker

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...

Dialogue Timeline — 1,610 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:45 Hey! Hey!
00:05:29 I really don't see what there is romantic about proposing.
00:08:38 Cecily, your German grammar is on the table.
00:11:40 She looks quite twenty years younger.
00:14:47 We live, as I hope you know, Mr. Worthing...
00:18:36 Algernon?
00:23:16 I'm glad to hear it.
00:26:51 Yes. The Brighton line.
00:30:04 interested in him. It's rather a bore.
00:34:24 that you would have to choose between this world...
00:38:27 At any rate, I stand before you now...
00:44:28 are at once delightful and exquisitely...
00:48:46 Just what I expected from him.
00:52:45 Particularly when the weather was so charming.
00:57:20 It is strange. He never mentioned it.
01:01:34 I felt there must be some slight error, Miss Cardew.
01:04:47 if the thing would bother you in any way...
01:08:39 but I intend to crush them.
01:11:53 I am engaged to be married. Aunt Augusta.
01:15:16 that I have no brother, that I never had a brother...
01:19:13 Thirty-four years ago. Prism...
01:23:46 I have a brother after all.
01:27:31 colonels...
130:00:00 in the funds, that is all.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,610
Dialogue density16.6 lines / min
First line00:00:45
Final line130:00:00

Production Record

DirectorOliver Parker
LanguageEnglish
Budget$15,000,000
Revenue$17,300,000
IMDb votes25,295