Oscar and Lucinda
# They dared to play the game of love, faith, and chance.
π 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.
π΅ Budget: USD
16,000,000
π Languages Available:
French
,
English
π Date Released:
1997-12-31
β Running Time:
132 mins
β Vote Average:
6.3
Beloved Cast
Oscar Hopkins
Ralph Fiennes
Lucinda Leplastrier
Cate Blanchett
Reverend Dennis Hasset
CiarΓ‘n Hinds
Hugh Stratton
Tom Wilkinson
Mr. Jeffries
Richard Roxburgh
Mr. Tomasetti
Christian Manon
Theophilus
Clive Russell
Wardley-Fish
Barnaby Kay
Betty Stratton
Linda Bassett
Narrator (voice)
Geoffrey Rush
Elderly Parishoner
Basil Clarke
Miss Shaddock
Andrea Moor
Percy Smith
Bille Brown
Miriam Chadwick
Josephine Byrnes
Jimmy D'Abbs
Barry Otto
Young Lucinda
Polly Cheshire
Elizabeth Leplastrier
Gillian Jones
Abel Leplastrier
Robert Menzies
Young Oscar
Adam Hayes
Mrs. Williams
Matyelok Gibbs
Fanny Drabble
Sonia Ritter
College Student
Will Barton
College Student
Jonathan Markwood
College Student
Nicholas Tennant
George Loxwood
Sam Newman
College Student
Nicholas Fordham
Mr. Ahearn
Peter Whitford
Mrs. Ahearn
Lynette Curran
Steamer Captain
Ron Blanchard
Frazer
Colin Taylor
Hotel Maid
Michelle Doake
Society Gossip
Karen Vickery
Society Gossip
Elspeth MacTavish
Miss Malcolm
Leverne McDonnell
Charley Fig
Geoff Morrell
Dog Pit Caller
Douglas Hedge
Belgian Boy
Tobias Saunders
Belgian Grandmother
Marianne Borgo
Belgian Mother
Vanessa Seydoux
Glassworks Foreman
Leslie Dayman