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Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
Directed by Gillian Armstrong
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.
Rated R | Length 132 minutes
Actors
Ralph Fiennes | Cate Blanchett | Ciarán Hinds | Tom Wilkinson | Richard Roxburgh | Christian Manon | Clive Russell | Barnaby Kay | Linda Bassett | Geoffrey Rush | Basil Clarke | Andrea Moor | Bille Brown | Josephine Byrnes | Barry Otto | Polly Cheshire | Gillian Jones | Robert Menzies | Adam Hayes | Matyelok Gibbs | Sonia Ritter | Will Barton | Jonathan Markwood | Nicholas Tennant | Sam Newman | Nicholas Fordham | Peter Whitford | Lynette Curran | Ron Blanchard | Colin Taylor | Michelle Doake | Karen Vickery | Elspeth MacTavish | Leverne McDonnell | Geoff Morrell | Douglas Hedge | Tobias Saunders | Marianne Borgo | Vanessa Seydoux | Leslie Dayman