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The Importance of Being Earnest
Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy sparkling wordplay, elaborate social farce, and romantic comedy built around manners, disguises, and absurd conventions.
- Tone
- playful, satirical, romantic
- Payoff
- amusement, swoon
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- gentle
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- identity, courtship, social convention, deception, marriage
- Setting
- late nineteenth-century, country estates and fashionable urban drawing rooms
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