Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda

1997 · 132 min · EN · R · 6.4 (64 votes)
Dir. Gillian Armstrong · Starring Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Richard Roxburgh, Christian Manon · Music Thomas Newman

They dared to play the game of love, faith, and chance.

DramaRomance

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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A sweeping, earnest romance set against the backdrop of 19th-century Australia. It feels like a beautifully crafted, bittersweet ode to obsession, faith, and the risks we take for love. A truly transportive experience.

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