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Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda

6.4/ 10

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79

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1997

Release Year

132 min

Runtime

Drama
Romance

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.

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Keywords

sydney, australia
australia
based on novel or book
gambling
minister
oxford
wager
inheritance
heiress
woman director
glass
19th century
gambling addiction
anglican priest

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Reviews(1)

6.0avg rating
CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

August 27, 2023

6
6/10

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

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