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Film · 1997
Oscar and Lucinda
2h 12mRDirected by Gillian Armstrong
- Drama
- Romance
They dared to play the game of love, faith, and chance.
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.
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Cast
Ralph FiennesOscar Hopkins
Cate BlanchettLucinda Leplastrier
Ciarán HindsReverend Dennis Hasset
Tom WilkinsonHugh Stratton
Richard RoxburghMr. Jeffries
Christian ManonMr. Tomasetti
Clive RussellTheophilus
Barnaby KayWardley-Fish
Linda BassettBetty Stratton
Geoffrey RushNarrator (voice)
Basil ClarkeElderly Parishoner
Andrea MoorMiss Shaddock
Details
- Director
- Gillian Armstrong
- Writer
- Laura Jones
- Novel
- Peter Carey
- Music
- Thomas Newman
- Cinematography
- Geoffrey Simpson
- Editor
- Nicholas Beauman
- Producer
- Robin Dalton, Timothy White
- Release
- December 31, 1997
- Runtime
- 2h 12m
- Rated
- R
- Language
- French, English
- Studio
- Fox Searchlight Pictures, Dalton Films, Australian Film Finance Corporation
- TMDB score
- 6.4 / 10 from 80 votes
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