The Importance of Being Earnest (1992)
2h 3m
Running Time
May 14, 1992Release Date
The Importance of Being Earnest (1992)
2h 3m
Running Time
May 14, 1992Release Date
Plot.
An all-black version of Oscar Wilde's play.
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Cast & Crew.

Obba Babatundé
Lane

Wren T. Brown
Algernon Moncrief

Chris Calloway
Gwendolyn Fairfax

Lanei Chapman
Cecily Cardew

Sylvester Hayes
Butler

Barbara Isaacs
Merriman

Brock Peters
Doctor Chasuble

CCH Pounder
Miss Prism

Daryl Keith Roach
Jack Worthing

Ann Weldon
Lady Bracknell

Kurt Baker
Screenplay / Director

Lennie Barin
Costume Design

Nancy Carter Crow
Producer

Peter Anthony Andrews
Writer

Jody Russell
Costume Design

Joseph W. Calloway
Director of Photography

Roger Hamilton Spotts
Composer

Oscar Wilde
Theatre Play
Details.
Release DateMay 14, 1992
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 3m
Filming LocationsBrentwood, United States
Genres
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Wiki.
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 Wilde’s dialogue and the setting around London, but moving it to the (then) present day rather than the original’s late Victorian period.
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.
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.