Barnaby Kay, Barry Otto, Bille Brown

In mid-1800's England, Oscar (Ralph Fiennes) 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 Pentecostal family, he felt God tol...( read more  read more... )d him through a sign to leave his father and his faith and join the Church of England. Lucinda (Cate Blanchett) is a teenage Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire to liberate women from the confines of the male-dominated culture of the Australia of 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, which leads to the events that will change both their lives forever.

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Directed by: Gillian Armstrong

Release Date: December 31, 1997

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  • April 9, 2007
    Definitely an interesting film though in places it is difficult to understand especially when dealing with Lucinda's growing up.
    It's a change to see Fiennes in such a role. Usually the suave gentleman that any woman would love to be with but here in a role as the "oddball". ...( read more)
    Not a film I would brag about for everyone to run and see but definitely interesting.
  • September 27, 2009
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    Oscar and Lucinda, starring Cate Blanchett and Ralph Fiennes.Both are superb actors and i was excited to see them together in a movi...( read more)e. But they would have picked a better one.This movie was so slow and boring that it was not a good choice for their acting career.Simple an odd movie. I can't say more.
  • December 27, 2007
    A fascinating movie.
  • August 17, 2009
    May 09 - Terrible! Had a hard time watching it to the end. I feel bad why Fiennes and Blanchett play in this.
  • July 7, 2009
    Just boring, and dumb
  • March 28, 2009
    No thankyou - Not interested
  • February 4, 2009
    Loved this movie about 2 different personalities brought together by one thing in common
  • October 27, 2008
    Total guilty pleasure.
  • September 7, 2008
    Sloooooooow and ponderous.

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