Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
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.
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
Robert Menzies
Abel Leplastrier
Matyelok Gibbs
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