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Oscar and Lucinda

Name: Oscar and Lucinda
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1997-12-31T00:00:00Z
Duration: 132 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Gillian Armstrong, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson

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

Drama Romance

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Premiere

Dec1997

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Australian Film Finance Corporation Dalton Films Fox Searchlight Pictures

Box office×0.12

Budget$16M

Gross$2M

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Gillian Armstrong's Oscar and Lucinda (1997) is a romantic drama available to watch online on iFILM, adapted from Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel and starring Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett.

Oscar Hopkins is an Anglican minister whose compulsion for gambling has shadowed him from a strict evangelical upbringing into the clergy. Lucinda Leplastrier is a wealthy Australian heiress who bought a glassworks on impulse and is equally drawn to risk. They meet on a ship bound for New South Wales. Out of their shared recklessness comes an extraordinary wager: Oscar will transport a prefabricated glass church through miles of Australian backcountry. Deliver it whole, and he wins her fortune.

Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett play two people who recognise exactly what they are doing to themselves and do it anyway — the film's real subject. Geoffrey Rush appears in a supporting role. Stream Oscar and Lucinda (1997) online on iFILM.

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