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Director

Gillian Armstrong

Screenplay

Laura Jones

Oscar and Lucinda 1997

Drama/ Romance/

BUDGET - $16,000,000

Status - Released

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.