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.
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Cast
- Ralph FiennesOscar Hopkins
- Cate BlanchettLucinda Leplastrier
- Ciarán HindsReverend Dennis Hasset
- Tom WilkinsonHugh Stratton
- Richard RoxburghMr. Jeffries
- Christian ManonMr. Tomasetti
- Clive RussellTheophilus
- Barnaby KayWardley-Fish
- Linda BassettBetty Stratton
- Geoffrey RushNarrator (voice)
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- Gillian ArmstrongDirector
- Laura JonesScreenplay
- Peter CareyNovel
- Geoffrey SimpsonDirector of Photography
- Thomas NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Nicholas BeaumanEditor
- Timothy WhiteProducer
- Robin DaltonProducer
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