As noted, most summer comedies are as rude as a fart. So it's a relief to find the gentlefolk at Miramax providing an elegantly funny film version of Oscar Wilde's play about British high jinks in high places.
An Ideal Husband opened onstage in 1895, the same year that the bisexual Wilde was imprisoned on charges of gross indecency. How clever of Wilde, then, to write his alter ego into the play in the person of Lord Arthur Goring, an acerbically witty scamp whose knack for getting himself into