Oscar and Lucinda 1997

Sensity:	No
Imdb rate:	6.6
Imdb Votes:	6,856
Duration:	132 mins
Year:	1997
Language:	English, French
Genre:	Drama, Romance
Country:	United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Director:	Gillian Armstrong
Writers:	Laura Jones, Peter Carey
Actors:	Ralph Fiennes , Cate Blanchett , Ciarán Hinds ,
Awards:	Nominated for 1 Oscar. 10 wins & 7 nominations total

Description:

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.

Keywords:

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