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 mid-1800's England, Oscar Hopkins 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 Plymouth Brethren family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and his faith and join the Church of England. Lucinda Leplastrier is a teenage Australian heiress who has an... almost desperate desire to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of Australia at 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.
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| Release date: | December 31, 1997 |
| Directed by: | Gillian Armstrong |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 132 Minutes |
| Producer: | Robin Dalton, Timothy White |
| Editor: | Nicholas Beauman |
| Music by: | Thomas Newman |
| Cinematography: | Geoffrey Simpson |
| Screenplay by: | Laura Jones |
| Adapted from: | Oscar and Lucinda |