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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.
Theatrical
Dec 31, 1997
Box Office
$1.9M
Budget
$16.0M
Return
0.1x
DVD / Blu-ray
Jan 11, 2005
Theaters
1
Director
Writer
Producers
Mark Turnball, Timothy White, Robin Dalton
Music
Studio
Fox Searchlight Pictures, Dalton Films, Australian Film Finance Corporation
Cast
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Ralph Fiennes
Oscar Hopkins
Cate Blanchett
Lucinda Leplastrier
C
Ciarán Hinds
Reverend Dennis Hasset
T
Tom Wilkinson
Hugh Stratton
R
Richard Roxburgh
Mr. Jeffries
C
Christian Manon
Mr. Tomasetti
C
Clive Russell
Theophilus
B
Barnaby Kay
Wardley-Fish
L
Linda Bassett
Betty Stratton
G
Geoffrey Rush
Narrator (voice)
B
Basil Clarke
Elderly Parishoner
A
Andrea Moor
Miss Shaddock
B
Bille Brown
Percy Smith
J
Josephine Byrnes
Miriam Chadwick
B
Barry Otto
Jimmy D'Abbs
G
Gillian Jones
Elizabeth Leplastrier
R
Robert Menzies
Abel Leplastrier
M
Matyelok Gibbs
Mrs. Williams
S
Sonia Ritter
Fanny Drabble
W
Will Barton
College Student
