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The Importance of Being Earnest (1992 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Importance of Being Earnest' is a 1992 American film adaptation of the 1895 play of the same name by Oscar Wilde, featuring an all-black cast.
Director Kurt Baker co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Anthony Andrews, retaining most of Wildes dialogue and the setting around London, but moving it to the (then) present day rather than the originals late Victorian period.
The film was produced by Nancy Carter Crow, who is also married to the director, and shot completely within the couples home in Brentwood, Los Angeles.
It premiered in October 1991 at a Harvard University film symposium, "Blacks in Black & White and Color",
and opened theatrically on May 14, 1992, at the Anthology Film Archives.
Cast
* Obba Babatund as Lane
* Wren T. Brown as Algernon Moncrieff
* Chris Calloway as Gwendolen Fairfax
* Lanei Chapman as Cecily Cardew
* Sylvester Hayes as butler
* Barbara Isaacs as Merriman
* Brock Peters as Doctor Chasuble
* CCH Pounder as Miss Prism
* Daryl Roach as Jack Worthing
* Ann Weldon as Lady Bracknell
Reception
Stephen Holden, writing for 'The New York Times', found that the film "deserves credit for breaking new ground", but lamented its technical quality, describing it as "just one step more sophisticated than a crude home movie".
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