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Oscar and Lucinda

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.

1997 |2h 12m |  Drama, Romance

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Cast

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Ralph Fiennes

Oscar Hopkins

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Cate Blanchett

Lucinda Leplastrier

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Ciarán Hinds

Reverend Dennis Hasset

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Tom Wilkinson

Hugh Stratton

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Richard Roxburgh

Mr. Jeffries

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Christian Manon

Mr. Tomasetti

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Clive Russell

Theophilus

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Barnaby Kay

Wardley-Fish

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Linda Bassett

Betty Stratton

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Geoffrey Rush

Narrator (voice)

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Basil Clarke

Elderly Parishoner

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Andrea Moor

Miss Shaddock

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Bille Brown

Percy Smith

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Josephine Byrnes

Miriam Chadwick

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Barry Otto

Jimmy D'Abbs

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Gillian Jones

Elizabeth Leplastrier

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Robert Menzies

Abel Leplastrier

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Matyelok Gibbs

Mrs. Williams

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Sonia Ritter

Fanny Drabble

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Sam Newman

George Loxwood

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Peter Whitford

Mr. Ahearn

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Lynette Curran

Mrs. Ahearn

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Michelle Doake

Hotel Maid

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Geoff Morrell

Charley Fig

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Marianne Borgo

Belgian Grandmother

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Leslie Dayman

Glassworks Foreman

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Status

Released

Language

French, English

Budget

$16,000,000.00

Revenue

$1,897,404.00