Release Date

31 Dec, 1997

Runtime

02:12: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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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Actors

Ralph Fiennes

Cate Blanchett

Ciarán Hinds

Tom Wilkinson

Richard Roxburgh

Christian Manon

Clive Russell

Barnaby Kay

Linda Bassett

Geoffrey Rush

Basil Clarke

Andrea Moor

Bille Brown

Josephine Byrnes

Barry Otto

Polly Cheshire

Gillian Jones

Robert Menzies

Adam Hayes

Matyelok Gibbs

Sonia Ritter

Crew

Gillian Armstrong

Sally Eccleston

Ian Bird

Ray Brown

Martin Fargher

Bede Haines

Aron Walker

Steve Wells

Peter Carey

Victoria Mielewska

Graeme Crowther

Douglas 'Rocky' McDonald

Robin Dalton

Mark Turnball