Oscar and Lucinda (1997)

6.349

Drama Romance

132 min min

1997

Ralph Fiennes Cate Blanchett Ciarán Hinds Tom Wilkinson Richard Roxburgh

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.