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Oscar and Lucinda

  • 19971997
  • RR
  • 2h 12m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
6.8K
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Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett in Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
  • Drama
  • Romance
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 t... Read allIn 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... Read allIn 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 fro... Read all
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
6.8K
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  • Director
    • Gillian Armstrong
  • Writers
    • Laura Jones(screenplay)
    • Peter Carey(novel)
  • Stars
    • Ralph Fiennes
    • Cate Blanchett
    • Ciarán Hinds
Top credits
  • Director
    • Gillian Armstrong
  • Writers
    • Laura Jones(screenplay)
    • Peter Carey(novel)
  • Stars
    • Ralph Fiennes
    • Cate Blanchett
    • Ciarán Hinds
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    • 53User reviews
    • 29Critic reviews
    • 66Metascore
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 10 wins & 7 nominations total

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    Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett in Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
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    Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett in Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
    Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett in Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
    Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett in Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
    Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett in Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
    Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett in Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
    Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett in Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
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    Ralph Fiennes in Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
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    Ralph Fiennes
    Ralph Fiennes
    • Oscar Hopkinsas Oscar Hopkins
    Cate Blanchett
    Cate Blanchett
    • Lucinda Leplastrieras Lucinda Leplastrier
    Ciarán Hinds
    Ciarán Hinds
    • Reverend Dennis Hassetas Reverend Dennis Hasset
    Tom Wilkinson
    Tom Wilkinson
    • Hugh Strattonas Hugh Stratton
    Richard Roxburgh
    Richard Roxburgh
    • Mr. Jeffriesas Mr. Jeffries
    Clive Russell
    Clive Russell
    • Theophilusas Theophilus
    Bille Brown
    • Percy Smithas Percy Smith
    Josephine Byrnes
    Josephine Byrnes
    • Miriam Chadwickas Miriam Chadwick
    Barnaby Kay
    Barnaby Kay
    • Wardley-Fishas Wardley-Fish
    Barry Otto
    Barry Otto
    • Jimmy D'Abbsas Jimmy D'Abbs
    Linda Bassett
    Linda Bassett
    • Betty Strattonas Betty Stratton
    Geoffrey Rush
    Geoffrey Rush
    • Narratoras Narrator
    • (voice)
    Polly Cheshire
    • Young Lucindaas Young Lucinda
    Gillian Jones
    • Elizabeth Leplastrieras Elizabeth Leplastrier
    Robert Menzies
    • Abel Leplastrieras Abel Leplastrier
    Adam Hayes
    Adam Hayes
    • Young Oscaras Young Oscar
    James Tingey
    • Oscar (13 Years Old)as Oscar (13 Years Old)
    Matyelok Gibbs
    • Mrs. Williamsas Mrs. Williams
    • Director
      • Gillian Armstrong
    • Writers
      • Laura Jones(screenplay)
      • Peter Carey(novel)
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Christopher Eccleston revealed in his memoir that he auditioned for Oscar Hopkins.
    • Goofs
      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.
    • Quotes

      [On how Christians are by nature gamblers]

      Oscar: We bet that there is a God.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Tomorrow Never Dies/Mousehunt/As Good as it Gets/Kundun/Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
    • Soundtracks
      Motet - Os Justi
      Written by Anton Bruckner

      Performed by La Chapelle Royale and Collegium Vocale Gent (as Collegium Vocale Ghent)

      Ensemble Musique Oblique

      Conducted by Philippe Herreweghe

      Courtesy of Harmonia Mundi S.A. France

    User reviews53

    Review
    Top review
    Obsession, Compulsion
    This is one of my favorite movies. Regular readers of my comments will wonder why I elevate it to my "must see" category

    Part of the reason I want you to see it is because of how well it pairs with Cate's masterpiece, "Heaven." Now, that film can stand on its own as a transcendent cinematic experience. It easily shifts us from a "real" world into one more magical and over the course of the experience that distance increases.

    It took Kieslowski's notion of cinematic distance and added the journey to that distance. It is one of the most important successful experiments in cinema and it owes much to the collaboration of Cate.

    That reflects on this. A smaller project. A less ambitious director, but still with an affecting emotional directness. A pre-existing story that has literary strengths that become cinematic defects. And yet there is that same collaboration with the creating of an alternative magical reality fueled by obsession.

    There is that same smooth slide from here to there. There is that same equating of wilderness (a Herzogian river) to the internal landscape. The same trigger of the gamble.

    And also, there is the remarkable glass chapel. One shot has it moving down the river, but it seems as if it is floating through the trees. You are dead if that does not stick with you for years.

    Alas, not much is made of a central image in the book — the tensed glass tears that explode when gently traced at their origin.

    The major flaw is Fiennes. Both brothers have a sort of forehead acting style which unravels much of the subtleties of Cate's acting by breathing. But she is so breathtaking an actress in both these films, even though she is only the referent in the last part of this.

    See the two films in one night. Any order.

    Ted's Evaluation -- 4 of 3: Every cineliterate person should experience this.
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    • tedg
    • Nov 23, 2005

    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 31, 1997 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Australia
      • United Kingdom
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Оскар і Люсінда
    • Filming locations
      • Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
    • Production companies
      • Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC)
      • Dalton Films
      • Fox Searchlight Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • A$16,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,897,404
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $83,461
      • Jan 4, 1998
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,897,404
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 12 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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