Oscar and Lucinda

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Ralph FiennesOscar Hopkins

Cate BlanchettLucinda Leplastrier

Ciarán HindsReverend Dennis Hasset

Tom WilkinsonHugh Stratton

Richard RoxburghMr. Jeffries

Christian ManonMr. Tomasetti

Clive RussellTheophilus

Barnaby KayWardley-Fish

Linda BassettBetty Stratton

Geoffrey RushNarrator (voice)

Basil ClarkeElderly Parishoner

Andrea MoorMiss Shaddock