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Oscar and Lucinda

They dared to play the game of love, faith, and chance.

Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Richard Roxburgh

Writer: Peter Carey, Laura Jones

Release Date:
December 31, 1997
Ratings:
6.3 / 10
Director:
Gillian Armstrong
Companies:
Fox Searchlight Pictures

Overview

After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.