Wilde (film)
Categories: Film stubs | 1997 films | LGBT-related films
Wilde is a 1997 movie about Oscar Wilde, starring Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave and Jennifer Ehle. It is based on biographical notes by Richard Ellmann.
The music was composed by Debbie Wiseman, for which she won an Ivor Novello Award.
Plot
The film begins in 1882 with Oscar Wilde's visit to Leadville, Colorado during his lecture tour in America. It describes his marriage, his wit, his homosexuality and his popularity, before depicting his downfall caused by his prosecution for gross indecency and his time in prison. It ends with Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie) meeting after Wilde has left prison.
Its frankness about Wilde's homosexuality, together with love scenes, has made the film somewhat famous and often controversial.
In a rather terrible pun, Fry is said to have been "born to be Wilde".
Trivia
The now popular British actor Orlando Bloom makes a one-line appearance playing a male prostitute outside a train station.