A GOOD WOMAN

Year: 2004
USA: Lions Gate Films
UK: Vertigo Films
Cast: Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Mark Umbers, Milena Vukotic, Diana Hardcastle, Roger Hammond, Jane How, Giorgia Massetti, John Standing
Director: Mike Barker
Countries: Spain / Italy / UK / Luxembourg / USA
USA & UK: 93 mins
USA Rated: PG for thematic material, sensuality and language
UK Certificate: PG contains mild language and sex references
USA Release Date: 3 February 2006 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 13 May 2005


Synopsis

Set in the 1930s on Italy's beautiful Amalfi coastline, A GOOD WOMAN is an elegant, romantic comedy based on Oscar Wilde's play "Lady Windermere's Fan". A young couple's marriage is put in jeopardy by high-society gossip. Robert Windermere (Mark Umbers) is suspected of providing a secret allowance for Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt) an older woman of ill repute. Meanwhile, Windermere's young wife, Meg (Scarlett Johansson), is attracting the attentions of Lord Darlington (Stephen Campbell Moore), a notorious playboy.

Mrs. Erlynne's arrival in the fashionable resort has drawn the attention of many of the men, in particular that of the wealthy Lord Augustus (Tom Wilkinson), who soon proposes marriage to her.

Events bubble to the surface at Meg's 21st birthday celebrations and she feels compelled to abandon the party and her husband to elope with the predatory Darlington. However, greater truths begin to emerge and it becomes apparent that dark family secrets lie beneath the elegant society surface.