Poster

Oscar And Lucinda

Year

1997

Genre

Drama, Romance

Country

USA, Australia, UK

Director

Gillian Armstrong

Writer

Peter Carey, Laura Jones

Actors

Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, CiarĂ¡n Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Richard Roxburgh, Clive Russell, Bille Brown, Josephine Byrnes, Barnaby Kay, Barry Otto, Linda Bassett, Geoffrey Rush, Polly Cheshire, Gillian Jones, Robert Menzies

Description

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. Oscar accepts her wager, and this leads to the events that will change both their lives forever.

Comments

Duration

127 minutes (at 25 frames per second)

Filesize

700 MB

Video

DivX 5 - resolution: 560x240

Audio