Oscar and Lucinda

They dared to play the game of love, faith, and chance.

12/31/19972h 12min6.4/10(79 TMDB votes)

DramaRomance

Directed by Gillian Armstrong

Plot

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.