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Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Peter Carey (novel)
Laura Jones (screenplay)
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Release Date:
31 December 1997 (USA) more
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Tagline:
A dream. A lie. A wager. Love. more
Plot:
In mid-1800's England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 9 wins & 5 nominations more
User Comments:
The Best Film You Never Seen... more (46 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Ralph Fiennes ... Oscar Hopkins

Cate Blanchett ... Lucinda Leplastrier

Ciarán Hinds ... Reverend Dennis Hasset (as Ciaran Hinds)

Tom Wilkinson ... Hugh Stratton

Richard Roxburgh ... Mr. Jeffries
Clive Russell ... Theophilus
Bille Brown ... Percy Smith
Josephine Byrnes ... Miriam Chadwick
Barnaby Kay ... Wardley-Fish
Barry Otto ... Jimmy D'Abbs
Linda Bassett ... Betty Stratton

Geoffrey Rush ... Narrator (voice)
Polly Cheshire ... Young Lucinda
Gillian Jones ... Elizabeth Leplastrier
Robert Menzies ... Abel Leplastrier
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MPAA:
Rated R for a scene of sexuality, and for brief violence.
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132 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Based on the 1988 Booker Award winning novel by Australian Peter Carey. more
Quotes:
[In his letter to Lucinda]
Oscar: I dare not hope, and yet I must that through this deed I gain your trust.
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Motet - Os Justi more

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The Best Film You Never Seen..., 14 September 2003
Author: T. Dunn from Ithaca, NY

Based on Australian novelist, Peter Carey's award-winning book, Oscar and Lucinda, this is a faithful period piece about iconoclasts and their attempt to find love and purpose in strait-laced society despite their fears and obsessions.

Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett have glorious, quirky chemistry in the title roles. Ralph Fiennes is such a mercurial actor that while watching this film, it's hard to believe this is the same man that played Amon Goeth in Schindler's List and Charles Van Doren in Quiz Show.

Cate Blanchett was discovered by Director Shekhar Kapur and awarded the title role in Elizabeth as a result of her natural, unforced acting in this little-seen Gillian Armstrong film. Brilliantly adapted, visually stunning, and (above all) extremely well-acted this is a film that it would be sad to miss.

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