An Ideal Husband (1999) - Synopsis

A member of parliament with a scandalous secret... A fortune-seeking seductress with a story to sell to the papers... A commitment-shy bachelor who is the celebrity of the most exclusive parties in London... Familiar characters, perhaps, embodying thoroughly modern obsessions with careers, money and marriage... Now whisk them back a century to a sumptuous world of whirling crinolene and torchlit carriages, extravagant balls and glittering plays - to a decade so intoxicated by its own decadence and fin-de-siecle excitement that parties last not one, but a hundred days..