Oscar and Lucinda( 1997)

TV-MADramaRomance

63%

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

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.

Top Billed 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
Polly Cheshire
Young Lucinda
Gillian Jones
Elizabeth Leplastrier
Robert Menzies
Abel Leplastrier
Adam Hayes
Young Oscar
Matyelok Gibbs
Mrs. Williams
Sonia Ritter
Fanny Drabble
Will Barton
College Student
Jonathan Markwood
College Student
Nicholas Tennant
College Student
Sam Newman
George Loxwood
Nicholas Fordham
College Student
Peter Whitford
Mr. Ahearn
Lynette Curran
Mrs. Ahearn
Ron Blanchard
Steamer Captain
Colin Taylor
Frazer
Michelle Doake
Hotel Maid
Karen Vickery
Society Gossip
Elspeth MacTavish
Society Gossip
Leverne McDonnell
Miss Malcolm
Geoff Morrell
Charley Fig
Douglas Hedge
Dog Pit Caller
Tobias Saunders
Belgian Boy
Marianne Borgo
Belgian Grandmother
Vanessa Seydoux
Belgian Mother
Leslie Dayman
Glassworks Foreman

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Aug 27 2023

This is a wonderfully good looking film with two strong performances from Ralph Fiennes ("Hopkins") and Cate Blanchett ("Lucinda"). The former is a bit of a loner being raised by his rather puritanical Pentecostal father. He absconds into the care of Anglican "Stratton" (Tom Wilkinson) who arranges for him to obtain an university education. Thing is, this brightly red haired lad doesn't really fit in, and is soon far more focussed on his rather effective system of gambling. Meantime, the latter, an Australian, has inherited a substantial fortune and invested it in a glass making factory (glass ...