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
Kurt Baker
Director
Brock Peters
Doctor Chasuble
Peter Anthony Andrews
Writer
CCH Pounder
Miss Prism
Oscar Wilde
Writer
Nancy Carter Crow
Producer
Daryl Keith Roach
Jack Worthing
Ann Weldon
Lady Bracknell
Roger Hamilton Spotts
Composer
Joseph W. Calloway
Cinematographer
Lennie Barin
Costume Design
Jody Russell
Costume Design
Details.
Release DateMay 14, 1992
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 3m
Filming LocationsBrentwood, United States of America
Genres
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.