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Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
6.7
Ratings: 6.7/10 from 4,099 users
Metascore:
66/100
Reviews: 47 user | 45 critic | 22 from Metacritic.com
In mid-1800's England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel... See full summary » Director:Gillian Armstrong |
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Nominated for Oscar.
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| Ralph Fiennes | ... |
Oscar Hopkins
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| Cate Blanchett | ... |
Lucinda Leplastrier
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| Ciarán Hinds | ... |
Reverend Dennis Hasset
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| Tom Wilkinson | ... |
Hugh Stratton
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| Richard Roxburgh | ... |
Mr. Jeffries
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Clive Russell | ... |
Theophilus
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| Bille Brown | ... |
Percy Smith
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Josephine Byrnes | ... |
Miriam Chadwick
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Barnaby Kay | ... |
Wardley-Fish
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Barry Otto | ... |
Jimmy D'Abbs
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Linda Bassett | ... |
Betty Stratton
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| Geoffrey Rush | ... |
Narrator
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Polly Cheshire | ... |
Young Lucinda
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Gillian Jones | ... |
Elizabeth Leplastrier
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Robert Menzies | ... |
Abel Leplastrier
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In mid-1800's 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 the Australian Outback. 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... Written by M.E. Nelson
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They dared to play the game of love, faith, and chance. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for a scene of sexuality, and for brief violence See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Oscar y Lucinda See more »Box Office
Budget:
AUD 16,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$137,163 (USA) (4 January 1998) (7 Screens)Gross:
$1,508,689 (USA) (15 March 1998)Company Credits
Production Co:
Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), Dalton Films, Fox Searchlight Pictures See more »
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Written by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed by the Prague Radio Chorus/Prague Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Vaclav Smetacek See more »
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Goofs
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Oscar & Lucinda race each other in scrubbing a passageway - but in doing so, they crawl over their handiwork. For a clean floor, you scrub going backwards. See more »Quotes
Narrator: In order that I exist, two gamblers, one obsessive, the other compulsive, must meet.See more »
Soundtracks
"Fantasia in C Minor for Piano, Chorus & Orchestra, Op.80"Written by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed by the Prague Radio Chorus/Prague Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Vaclav Smetacek See more »
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