Starring Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde), Colin Firth (Bridget Jones’s Diary), and Rupert Everett (My Best Friend’s Wedding), here is the hilarious adventure of two dashing young bachelors and the outrageous deceptions they find themselves in over love! Whenever Worthing (Firth) wants to leave his dull country life behind, he makes visits to the city posing as his fictitious “brother” Ernest. There, he becomes smitten with the ravishing Gwendolen (Frances O’Connor, A.I.). But when Worthing is in town, his playboy pal Algy (Everett) is in the country and falling for Worthing’s young and beautiful ward, Cecily (Witherspoon) — while also impersonating Ernest! Pandemonium ensues when these two would-be Ernests find themselves face-to-face and in the predicament of explaining who they really are!

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• Factory sealed DVD

Idle young Victorian Algy (Rupert Everett) wasn’t offended when he learned Jack (Colin Firth) had been wooing his cousin Gwendolen (Frances O’Connor) under the assumed name “Ernest.” In fact, he thought he’d try the same ruse on Jack’s attractive ward Cecily (Reese Witherspoon)! Director Oliver Parker’s sublime reworking of Oscar Wilde’s “trivial comedy for serious people,” employing flashbacks and fantasy sequences to enhance the classic tale, also stars Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson. 94 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English (SDH); audio commentary by Parker; “making of” documentary; deleted scenes