Watching “The Happy Prince,” writer-director-star Rupert Everett’s account of the older Oscar Wilde, ungenerous viewers may think of someone who would have disdained the movie: the younger Oscar Wilde ...

‘The Happy Prince’ Looks To Oscar Wilde’s Final Years Actor Rupert Everett makes his feature writing and directing debut with the Happy Prince. The film looks to playwright Oscar Wilde's final years ...

Few literary final acts are as sad as that of Oscar Wilde. Released after two years of harsh incarceration in 1897 — for the then-crime of “gross indecency,” i.e. consensual gay sex — he fled London, ...

The title of Oscar Wilde’s fairy tale “The Happy Prince” was not his subtlest use of irony, but as seen in Rupert Everett’s film that bears the same name, it was tragically apt. Taking place after he ...

Captivating performances, deft dialogue and evocative scenery distinguish “The Happy Prince” as a carefully cultivated biopic of 19th-century Irish author Oscar Wilde that may be unapproachable for ...

The penniless, broken final years of Oscar Wilde’s life are examined in “The Happy Prince,” an honest-but-shapeless portrait that is more than warts-and-all. It’s all warts. Rupert Everett writes, ...

At the height of his fame, Wilde was as close to being an out gay man as it was possible to be in Victorian England, and it cost him dearly. He was imprisoned in 1895 and sentenced to two years hard ...

Watching “The Happy Prince,” writer-director-star Rupert Everett’s account of the older Oscar Wilde, ungenerous viewers may think of someone who would have disdained the movie: the younger Oscar Wilde ...

Few literary final acts are as sad as that of Oscar Wilde. Released after two years of harsh incarceration in 1897 – for the then-crime of “gross indecency,” i.e. consensual gay sex – he fled London, ...