The Importance of Being Earnest (1992 film)
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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.[1][2]
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Directed by | Kurt Baker |
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Based on | The Importance of Being Earnest 1895 play by Oscar Wilde |
Produced by | Nancy Carter Crow |
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Cinematography | Joseph W. Calloway |
Edited by | Tracy Alexander |
Music by | Roger Hamilton Spotts |
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Distributed by | Flair Films |
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Running time | 126 minutes |
Country | United States of America |
Language | English |
Director Kurt Baker co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Anthony Andrews, retaining most of Wilde’s dialogue and the setting around London, but moving it to the (then) present day rather than the original’s late Victorian period.[3] The film was produced by Nancy Carter Crow, who is also married to the director, and shot completely within the couple’s home in Brentwood, Los Angeles.[4] It premiered in October 1991 at a Harvard University film symposium, "Blacks in Black & White and Color",[5] and opened theatrically on May 14, 1992, at the Anthology Film Archives.[3]