Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda (1997)

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

TMDb

6.4

31/12/1997 • 2h 12m
original-title

Oscar and Lucinda

status

Released

production-companies

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Dalton Films

Australian Film Finance Corporation

original-language

English

budget

$16,000,000

revenue

$1,897,404

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.

production-countries

Australia

United Kingdom

United States of America

spoken-languages

French

English

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