
Oscar and Lucinda
They dared to play the game of love, faith, and chance.
1997 en 132 minutes
Rating: 6.4
Plot
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 Fiennes
Oscar Hopkins

Cate Blanchett
Lucinda Leplastrier

Ciarán Hinds
Reverend Dennis Hasset

Tom Wilkinson
Hugh Stratton

Richard Roxburgh
Mr. Jeffries

Christian Manon
Mr. Tomasetti

Clive Russell
Theophilus

Barnaby Kay
Wardley-Fish

Linda Bassett
Betty Stratton

Geoffrey Rush
Narrator (voice)

Basil Clarke
Elderly Parishoner

Andrea Moor
Miss Shaddock

Bille Brown
Percy Smith

Josephine Byrnes
Miriam Chadwick

Barry Otto
Jimmy D'Abbs

Polly Cheshire
Young Lucinda

Gillian Jones
Elizabeth Leplastrier

Robert Menzies
Abel Leplastrier

Adam Hayes
Young Oscar

Matyelok Gibbs
Mrs. Williams

Sonia Ritter
Fanny Drabble

Will Barton
College Student

Jonathan Markwood
College Student

Nicholas Tennant
College Student

Sam Newman
George Loxwood

Nicholas Fordham
College Student

Peter Whitford
Mr. Ahearn

Lynette Curran
Mrs. Ahearn

Ron Blanchard
Steamer Captain

Colin Taylor
Frazer

Michelle Doake
Hotel Maid

Karen Vickery
Society Gossip

Elspeth MacTavish
Society Gossip

Leverne McDonnell
Miss Malcolm

Geoff Morrell
Charley Fig

Douglas Hedge
Dog Pit Caller

Tobias Saunders
Belgian Boy

Marianne Borgo
Belgian Grandmother

Vanessa Seydoux
Belgian Mother

Leslie Dayman
Glassworks Foreman

Lucy Bell
Miss Mary Hasset