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Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 31, 1997

Runtime

2h 12m

Genres

Drama, Romance

User Score

63%

Original Title

Oscar and Lucinda

Production Companies

Fox Searchlight Pictures, Dalton Films, Australian Film Finance Corporation

Director

Gillian Armstrong

Budget

$16,000,000

Revenue

$1,897,404

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.