Oscar and Lucinda

Drama, Romance | 1997-12-31 | Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America

6.3 / 10

132 min.

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

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.

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Dalton Films

Australian Film Finance Corporation