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Oscar and Lucinda
Release Date: December 31, 1997
Year | : | 1997 |
Slogan | : | «They dared to play the game of love, faith, and chance.» |
Genres | : | Drama, Romance |
Production Companies | : | Fox Searchlight Pictures, Dalton Films, Australian Film Finance Corporation |
Director | : | Gillian Armstrong |
Producers | : | Alison Barrett, Timothy White, Robin Dalton, Kathleen Mackie Higgins, Mark Turnball |
Writers | : | Laura Jones, Peter Carey |
RunTime | : | 132 mins. |
Budget | : | 16000000 |
Revenue | : | 1897404 |
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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