Oscar and Lucinda (movie)
- User score: 6.4
- Production country: Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Producer: Gillian Armstrong
- Production companies: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Dalton Films, Australian Film Finance Corporation
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Budget: $16,000,000
- Revenue: $1,897,404
- Release date: 12/31/1997
- Run time: 132 min.
Movie 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.
