A Good Woman ( film ) - wikipedia A Good Woman ( film ) A Good Woman Original theatrical poster Directed by Mike Barker Produced by Jonathan English Alan Greenspan Howard Himelstein Steve Siebert Written by Howard Himelstein Based on Lady Windermere 's Fan by Oscar Wilde Starring Helen Hunt Scarlett Johansson Tom Wilkinson Music by Richard G. Mitchell Cinematography Ben Seresin Edited by Neil Farrell Distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment Release date 15 September 2004 ( 2004 - 09 - 15 ) Running time 93 minutes Country United States United Kingdom Italy Spain Language English Box office $6,877,842 A Good Woman is a 2004 American - British - Italian - Spanish drama film directed by Mike Barker. The screenplay by Howard Himelstein is based on the 1892 play Lady Windermere 's Fan by Oscar Wilde. It is the fourth screen version of the work, following a 1916 silent film using Wilde 's original title, Ernst Lubitsch 's 1925 version and Otto Preminger 's 1949 adaptation entitled The Fan. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production notes 4 Critical reception 5 References 6 External links Plot Set in 1930, the film opens in New York City, where femme fatale Mrs. Erlynne finds that she is no longer welcomed by either the high - ranking men she has seduced or the society wives she has betrayed. Selling her jewelry, she buys passage on a liner bound for Amalfi, Italy, where she apparently sets her sights on newlywed Robert Windermere. When his car frequently is seen parked outside her villa, local gossips become convinced the two are having an affair. Robert 's demure wife Meg remains oblivious to the stories about the two circulating throughout the town, but when she discovers her husband 's cheque register with numerous stubs indicating payments to Erlynne, she suspects the worst. What she does n't know is that Erlynne actually is her mother, who has been extorting payments from Robert in return for keeping her secret. She is consoled with the advice, `` Plain women resort to crying ; pretty women go shopping. '' In retaliation for what she believes is her husband 's transgression, Meg wears a revealing gown to her twenty - first birthday celebration, attended by Erlynne - wearing the same dress - in the company of Lord Augustus, a wealthy, twice - divorced man who has proposed marriage to Erlynne. Complications ensue when Lord Darlington professes his love for Meg and implores her to leave her supposedly wayward husband, an invitation she accepts. Erlynne, having found Meg 's farewell note to Robert, intercepts her on Darlington 's yacht, where the two are trapped when Augustus, Darlington, Robert, and friends arrive for a night of drinking. Robert is startled to see the fan he gave Meg for her birthday on board ; while Meg makes a hasty escape, Erlynne reveals herself and claims she had taken it from the party in error ; and Augustus, thinking his fiancée was planning a romantic rendezvous with Darlington, ends their engagement. Robert pays Erlynne to leave Amalfi immediately and begs her not to reveal her identity to Meg. Reluctantly, she complies with his wishes, although she returns his cheque before she departs. On board the plane waiting to take her to a new life, she discovers Augustus, who presents her with the fan Meg gave him when she confessed to him all that had really happened. Erlynne accepts his renewed proposal of marriage and the two depart for places unknown. Cast Helen Hunt as Mrs. Stella Erlynne Scarlett Johansson as Meg Windermere Mark Umbers as Robert Windermere Stephen Campbell Moore as Lord Darlington Tom Wilkinson as Lord Augustus Milena Vukotic as Contessa Lucchino Roger Hammond as Cecil John Standing as Dumby Giorgia Massetti - Alessandra Diana Hardcastle - Lady Plymdale Shara Orano - Francesca Jane How - Mrs. Stutfield Production notes Twenty - two people from Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Luxembourg were credited as producers of the film. It was shot on location in Italy at Amalfi, Atrani, Ravello, Sorrento, and Rome. It grossed $238,609 in the US and $6,639,233 in foreign markets for a total worldwide box office of $6,877,842. Critical reception In his review in The New York Times, Stephen Holden called the film a `` misbegotten Hollywood - minded screen adaptation '' and added, `` There is an excruciating divide between the film 's British actors ( led by Tom Wilkinson and Stephen Campbell Moore ), who are comfortable delivering Wilde 's aphorisms... and its American marquee names, Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson, ( who have ) little connection to the English language as spoken in the high Wildean style. '' Derek Elley of Variety stated, `` In most respects, the film is so far from Wilde 's play that it 's practically a separate work. Bathed in pastels, ochres, blacks and golds, and easily moving around a variety of locations, it 's like another slice of ' 30s nostalgia in the vein of Enchanted April or Where Angels Fear to Tread. Though undeniably retaining their wit, the Wilde - isms are finally more of a distraction, imported from another world and another genre. '' In the San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle opined, `` There 's nothing to dislike about this movie... Yet something is wrong with A Good Woman : The lightning never strikes. It 's never quite alive... the process of literalizing the action, an inevitable consequence of moving a play to the screen, makes ( it ) less exaggerated and more somber than is ideal. But nothing can diminish the wit and the pleasure of Wilde 's epigrams. '' Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote, `` The film is well intentioned and mildly diverting, but in attempting to modernize its story it has lost many of the things that make the original so memorable and not gained much in return... Despite its talented cast, the result lacks Wilde 's trademark bite ; it 's soft and middlebrow, even though he was anything but... Although transposing this story to photogenic Italy makes for the requisite number of scenic vistas, it also creates a number of problems for the story, starting with the fact that Wilde 's concerns about the restrictive nature of society do n't play as well outside the rigid confines of Victorian England. Also sacrificed in this more naturalistic production is the brilliance of Wilde 's artifice. The sharpness and crackling energy of his conception, frankly, makes a bad fit with the film 's fitful and not particularly successful attempts to make these characters more well - rounded... A Good Woman wo n't ruin anyone 's day, but it wo n't make anyone 's either, and it wo n't get the great Irish playwright anything like the admiration his work deserves. '' In The Times, Wendy Ide observed, `` There 's more life in Oscar Wilde 's long - dead corpse than there is in A Good Woman... spiked with as many pithy Wildean aphorisms as could be cannibalised from his other work and crowbarred unceremoniously into the flagging script. '' Rottentomatoes.com reports that 39 % of critics gave it a positive review, based on 77 reviews. References Jump up ^ http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=goodwoman.htm Jump up ^ http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=goodwoman.htm Jump up ^ New York Times review Jump up ^ Variety review Jump up ^ San Francisco Chronicle review Jump up ^ Los Angeles Times review Jump up ^ The Times review Jump up ^ Rottentomatoes aggregate External links Official website A Good Woman on IMDb A Good Woman at Box Office Mojo Oscar Wilde 's Lady Windermere 's Fan Films Lady Windermere 's Fan ( 1916 ) Lady Windermere 's Fan ( 1925 ) El abanico de Lady Windermere ( 1944 ) The Fan ( 1949 ) A Good Woman ( 2004 ) Other After the Ball ( musical ) Lady Windermere syndrome Lady Windermere 's Fan ( mathematics ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_Good_Woman_(film)&oldid=798273905 '' Categories : 2004 films English - language films 2000s drama films American romantic drama films American films British drama films British films Italian drama films Italian films Spanish drama films Spanish films Films based on Lady Windermere 's Fan Films directed by Mike Barker Films set in the 1930s Films set in Italy Lions Gate Entertainment films Vertigo Films films Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from June 2016 Use British English from June 2016 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Čeština Deutsch Español فارسی Français Հայերեն Italiano 日本 語 Polski Português Русский 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 31 August 2017, at 23 : 26. 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Question: where was the movie a good woman filmed
Answer: in Italy at Amalfi, Atrani, Ravello, Sorrento, and Rome