Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar and Lucinda
Release: 1997-12-31
·Runtime: 132m
·★ 6.4
Drama
Romance
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
Production Companies
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Dalton Films
Australian Film Finance Corporation
Cast
Ralph Fiennes
as Oscar Hopkins
Cate Blanchett
as Lucinda Leplastrier
Ciarán Hinds
as Reverend Dennis Hasset
Tom Wilkinson
as Hugh Stratton
Richard Roxburgh
as Mr. Jeffries
Christian Manon
as Mr. Tomasetti
Clive Russell
as Theophilus
Barnaby Kay
as Wardley-Fish
Linda Bassett
as Betty Stratton
Geoffrey Rush
as Narrator (voice)
Basil Clarke
as Elderly Parishoner
Andrea Moor
as Miss Shaddock
Bille Brown
as Percy Smith
Josephine Byrnes
as Miriam Chadwick
Barry Otto
as Jimmy D'Abbs
Gillian Jones
as Elizabeth Leplastrier
Robert Menzies
as Abel Leplastrier
Matyelok Gibbs
as Mrs. Williams
Sonia Ritter
as Fanny Drabble
Will Barton
as College Student
Nicholas Tennant
as College Student
Sam Newman
as George Loxwood
Peter Whitford
as Mr. Ahearn
Lynette Curran
as Mrs. Ahearn
Michelle Doake
as Hotel Maid
Geoff Morrell
as Charley Fig
Marianne Borgo
as Belgian Grandmother
Leslie Dayman
as Glassworks Foreman
Lucy Bell
as Miss Mary Hasset
