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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.
$16,000,000
$1,897,404
December 31, 1997
Fox Searchlight Pictures, Dalton Films
42 people
Ralph Fiennes
Oscar Hopkins
Acting
Cate Blanchett
Lucinda Leplastrier
Acting
Ciarán Hinds
Reverend Dennis Hasset
Acting
Tom Wilkinson
Hugh Stratton
Acting
Richard Roxburgh
Mr. Jeffries
Acting
Christian Manon
Mr. Tomasetti
Acting
Clive Russell
Theophilus
Acting
Barnaby Kay
Wardley-Fish
Acting
Linda Bassett
Betty Stratton
Acting
Geoffrey Rush
Narrator (voice)
Acting
Basil Clarke
Elderly Parishoner
Acting
Andrea Moor
Miss Shaddock
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