Film

Oscar and Lucinda

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

6.3

2h 12m

1997

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

Synopsis

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.