They dared to play the game of love, faith, and chance.
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.
- 6.3
- 1997
- Released
- 2h 12m
Ralph Fiennes
Oscar Hopkins
Cate Blanchett
Lucinda Leplastrier
Ciarán Hinds
Reverend Dennis Hasset
Tom Wilkinson
Hugh Stratton
Richard Roxburgh
Mr. Jeffries
Christian Manon
Mr. Tomasetti
Clive Russell
Theophilus
Barnaby Kay
Wardley-Fish
Linda Bassett
Betty Stratton
Geoffrey Rush
Narrator (voice)
Basil Clarke
Elderly Parishoner
Andrea Moor
Miss Shaddock
Bille Brown
Percy Smith
Josephine Byrnes
Miriam Chadwick
Barry Otto
Jimmy D'Abbs
Polly Cheshire
Young Lucinda
Gillian Jones
Elizabeth Leplastrier
Robert Menzies
Abel LeplastrierAdam Hayes
Young Oscar
Matyelok Gibbs
Mrs. Williams
Sonia Ritter
Fanny Drabble
Will Barton
College StudentJonathan Markwood
College Student
Nicholas Tennant
College Student
Sam Newman
George LoxwoodNicholas Fordham
College Student
Peter Whitford
Mr. Ahearn
Lynette Curran
Mrs. AhearnRon Blanchard
Steamer CaptainColin Taylor
Frazer
Michelle Doake
Hotel MaidKaren Vickery
Society GossipElspeth MacTavish
Society GossipLeverne McDonnell
Miss Malcolm
Geoff Morrell
Charley FigDouglas Hedge
Dog Pit CallerTobias Saunders
Belgian Boy
Marianne Borgo
Belgian Grandmother
Leslie Dayman
Glassworks Foreman
Lucy Bell
Miss Mary HassetKim Hillas
Publican's Wife
Released
en
$16,000,000.00
$1,897,404.00
- #sydney, australia
- #australia
- #based on novel or book
- #gambling
- #minister
- #oxford
- #wager
- #inheritance
- #heiress
- #woman director
- #glass
- #19th century
- #gambling addiction
- #anglican priest
Reviews
This is a wonderfully good looking film with two strong performances from Ralph Fiennes ("Hopkins") and Cate Blanchett ("Lucinda"). The former is a bit of a loner being raised by his rather puritanical Pentecostal father. He absconds into the care of Anglican "Stratton" (Tom Wilkinson) who arranges for him to obtain an university education. Thing is, this brightly red haired lad doesn't really fit