

Oscar and Lucinda
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $16M
- Box office
- $1.9M
- Language
- French
- sydney, australia
- australia
- based on novel or book
- gambling
- minister
- oxford
- wager
- inheritance
- heiress
- woman director
- glass
- 19th century
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Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR31 Dec 1997
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical22 Jan 1998
GermanyDE
- Theatrical622 Jan 1998
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/1226 Jun 1998
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Oscar and Lucinda was released on 31 December 1997.
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CinemaSerf
8/27/2023
This is a wonderfully good looking film with two strong performances from Ralph Fiennes ("Hopkins") and Cate Blanchett ("Lucinda"). The former is a bit of a loner being raised by his rather puritanical Pentecostal father. He absconds into the care of Anglican "Stratton" (Tom Wilkinson) who arranges for him to obtain an university education. Thing is, this brightly red haired lad doesn't really fit in, and is soon far…
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