Oscar and Lucinda
- Movies
- 1997-12-31
- EN
- Released
- 2h 12m
- US
- Drama - Romance
- Budget: $16,000,000.00
Production
Fox Searchlight Pictures, Dalton Films, Australian Film Finance Corporation
Tagline
They dared to play the game of love, faith, and chance.
Storyline
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.
