Oscar and Lucinda
“They dared to play the game of love, faith, and chance.”
1997movie2h 12mReleased
DramaRomance
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Budget: $16,000,000 · Revenue: $1,897,404
Overview
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.
