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Oscar and Lucinda is a 1997 romantic drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Ciarán Hinds and Tom Wilkinson. It is based on the 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey. In March 1998, the film was nominated at the 70th Academy Awards for the Best Costume Design.
Dec 31, 1997 · Oscar and Lucinda: Directed by Gillian Armstrong. With Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson. In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel.
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- Drama, Romance
- Gillian Armstrong
- 1997-12-31
Jan 23, 1998 · "Oscar and Lucinda" begins with the look of a period literary adaptation, but this is not Dickens, Austen, Forster or James; Carey's novel is playful and manipulative, and so is the film. Oscar is shy and painfully sincere, Lucinda has evaded her century's strictures on women by finding a private passion, and they would both agree, I believe ...
Oscar and Lucinda. After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins (Ralph Fiennes) becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling.
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- Gillian Armstrong
- R
- Ralph Fiennes
The book tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, an Anglican priest from Devon and son of a Plymouth Brethren minister, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australian heiress who buys a glass factory. They meet on the ship over to Australia, and discover that they are both gamblers, one obsessive, the other compulsive.
- Peter Carey
- 1988
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Oscar And Lucinda. Australian director Gillian Armstrong directed this Laura Jones adaptation of Peter Carey's 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel. In a lengthy flashback, Oscar Hopkins's great grandson narrates the family history that led to his birth.
In mid-1800s 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.
