Helen Hunt in A Good Woman (2004)

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Director Mike Barker dusts off Oscar Wilde’s sly social satire Lady Windermere’s Fan for a new generation with A Good Woman (2004). Transplanted from late-nineteenth-century London to luscious 1930s Amalfi, the drawing-room farce follows the devilish Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt) as she attempts to blackmail her daughter’s wealthy husband (Mark Umbers). Confusing matters is the fact that the rogue Lord Darlington (Stephen Campbell Moore) is having trouble keeping his gloved paws off of Erlynne’s foxy offspring (Scarlett Johansson). As bon mots and barbed witticisms fly, Hunt and Johansson do a noble job of strutting through ritzy set pieces in deliciously low-cut dresses.