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Australian director Gillian Armstrong directed this Laura Jones adaptation of Peter Carey's 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel. In a lengthy flashback, Oscar Hopkins' great grandson (Geoffrey Rush) narrates the family history that led to his birth. On an Australian farm, Lucinda Leplastrier was tutored ...more
MPAA Rating: R | Year: 1997 | Running Time: 132 minutes
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$8.99OSCAR & LUCINDA / (SEN)
This luminous literary adaptation stays just the right side of precious and pretentious in tracing the love between two unlikely gamblers, one a proto-feminist heiress who seems determined to squander both fortune and reputation, the other a sheltered Anglican minister who sees proof of God's handiwork in the constellation of his poker cards. Although it starts out like a cross between a Jane Austen comedy and a Thomas Hardy parable, Oscar and Lucinda eventually veers closer to Joseph Conrad's ...more
- Ralph Fiennes - Oscar Hopkins
- Cate Blanchett - Lucinda Leplastrier
- Ciarán Hinds - Rev. Dennis Hasset
- Tom Wilkinson - Hugh Stratton
- Richard Roxburgh - Mr. Jeffris
- Clive Russell - Theophilus
- Billie Brown - Percy Smith
- Josephine Byrnes - Miriam Chadwick
- Barnaby Kay - Wardley-Fish
- Barry Otto - Jimmy D'Abbs
- Linda Basssett - Betty Stratton
- Geoffrey Rush - Narrator
- Gillian Armstrong - Director
- Timothy White - Producer
- Robin Dalton - Producer
- Laura Jones - Screenwriter
- Peter Carey - Book Author
- John Ralph - Art Director
- John Wingrove - Art Director
- Paul Ghiradani - Art Director
- Tom Nursey - Art Director
- Mark Turnbull - Associate Producer
- Alison Barrett - Casting
- Kathleen Mackie - Casting
- Janet Patterson - Costume Designer
- Mark Egerton - First Assistant Director
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