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Film based on Peter Carey's acclaimed, Booker-prize winning novel, Oscar and Lucinda   OPENING DATES December 31, 1997: LA, NYC January 23, 1998: Chicago, Toronto, San Francisco, Boston Other dates: Remaining markets   Watch for the video available for rental in the U.S. after May '98 A tale of romance, religion, and gambling set against the Victorian Era of England and Australia

Enhance the experience with Ralph Fiennes performing the audiobook, Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey -- distributed through Random House   LOVE "I dare not hope, And yet I must That through this deed I gain your trust." Chapter 93 (Doggerel)

FAITH "Dear God, if it is your desire that your flock eat pudding in celebration of Thy birth as man, then show Thy humble supplicant a sign." Chapter 5 (A Prayer)

CHANCE "Our whole faith is a wager, Miss Leplastrier. We bet...that there is a God. We bet our life on it...I cannot see that such a God, whose fundamental requirement of us is that we gamble our mortal souls, every second of our temporal existence... It is true! We must gamble every instant of our allotted span. We must stake everything on the unprovable fact of His existence." Chapter 57 (Confession)

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THE CAST Oscar Hopkins.................................Ralph Fiennes Lucinda Leplastrier...........................Cate Blanchett Reverend Dennis Hasset...................Ciaran Hinds Hugh Statton...................................Tom Wilkinson Mr. Jeffris.......................................Richard Roxburgh Theophilus......................................Clive Russell Percy Smith. ..................................Bille Brown Miriam Chadwick............................Josephine Byrnes Wardley-Fish..................................Barnaby Kay Jimmy D'Abbs................................Barry Otto Betty Stratton..................................Linda Bassett

THE FILMMAKERS Directed by..............................Gillian Armstrong Produced by.............................Robin Dalton ..............................................Timothy White Music by.................................Thomas Newman Costume Designed by................Janet Patterson Film Editor...............................Nicholas Beauman Production Designer..................Luciana Arrighi Director of Photography............Geoffrey Simpson, A.C.E. Original Novel by......................Peter Carey Screenplay by...........................Laura Jones

Janet Patterson was nominated for Best Costume Design at the
70th Annual Academy Awards but lost out to "Titanic" instead. :-(

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