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.
- Year : 1997
- Country : Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Genre : Drama, Romance
- Studio : Fox Searchlight Pictures, Dalton Films, Australian Film Finance Corporation
- Keyword : sydney, australia, australia, based on novel or book, gambling, minister, oxford, wager, inheritance, heiress, woman director, glass, 19th century, gambling addiction, anglican priest
- Director : Gillian Armstrong
- Cast : Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Richard Roxburgh, Christian Manon