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But Wilde's protagonists all have dark secrets, and Chiltern's turns out to be a doozy.
Reviewing An Ideal Husband in 1895, George Bernard Shaw wrote that "the modern note is struck in Sir Robert Chiltern's assertion of the individuality and courage of his wrongdoing as against the mechanical idealism of his stupidly good wife, and in his bitter criticism of love that is only the reward of merit."
An incriminating missive has fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous fortune hunter, Mrs. Cheveley (Julianne Moore), who's happy to destroy it if Chiltern trashes his high ideals and throws his support to a real-estate scam in which his blackmailer is heavily invested.
This idea is probably more Shavian (or Ibsenite) than Wildean, but the larger point is clear: that Wilde was more concerned with exploding the notion of an "ideal" person than with punishing Chiltern's sin, and in showing that part of becoming human is learning to forgive others' lapses.
The suspense is that of a conventional melodrama: Will Chiltern defy Mrs. Cheveley in the name of truth?