Oscar and Lucinda
Directed by Gillian Armstrong
In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and his faith and join the Church of England. Lucinda is a teen-aged Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of the Australia of that time. She buys a glass factory and has a dream of building a church made almost entirely of glass, and then transporting it to Bellingen, a remote settlement on the north coast. Oscar and Lucinda meet on a ship going to Australia; once there, they are for different reasons ostracized from society, and as a result "join forces" together. Oscar and Lucinda are both passionate gamblers, and Lucinda bets Oscar her entire inheritance that he cannot transport the glass church to the Outback safely. Oscar accepts her wager, and this leads to the events that will change both their lives forever.
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Oscar and Lucinda was released on December 31, 1997.
Oscar and Lucinda was directed by Gillian Armstrong.
Oscar and Lucinda has a runtime of 2h 12m.
Oscar and Lucinda was produced by Robin Dalton, Timothy White.
In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and his faith and join the Church of England. Lucinda is a teen-aged Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of the Australia of that time. She buys a glass factory and has a dream of building a church made almost entirely of glass, and then transporting it to Bellingen, a remote settlement on the north coast. Oscar and Lucinda meet on a ship going to Australia; once there, they are for different reasons ostracized from society, and as a result "join forces" together. Oscar and Lucinda are both passionate gamblers, and Lucinda bets Oscar her entire inheritance that he cannot transport the glass church to the Outback safely. Oscar accepts her wager, and this leads to the events that will change both their lives forever.
The key characters in Oscar and Lucinda are Oscar Hopkins (Ralph Fiennes), Lucinda Leplastrier (Cate Blanchett), Reverend Dennis Hasset (Ciarán Hinds).
Oscar and Lucinda is rated R.
Oscar and Lucinda is a Drama, Romance film.
Oscar and Lucinda has an audience rating of 6.5 out of 10.
Oscar and Lucinda had a budget of $16M.
Oscar and Lucinda has made $1.9M at the box office.