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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Ralph Fiennes as Oscar Hopkins
Cate Blanchett as Lucinda Leplastrier
Ciarán Hinds as Reverend Dennis Hasset
Tom Wilkinson as Hugh Stratton
Richard Roxburgh as Mr. Jeffries
Christian Manon as Mr. Tomasetti
Clive Russell as Theophilus
Barnaby Kay as Wardley-Fish
Linda Bassett as Betty Stratton
Geoffrey Rush as Narrator (voice)
Basil Clarke as Elderly Parishoner
Andrea Moor as Miss Shaddock
Bille Brown as Percy Smith
Josephine Byrnes as Miriam Chadwick
Barry Otto as Jimmy D'Abbs
Polly Cheshire as Young Lucinda
Gillian Jones as Elizabeth Leplastrier
Robert Menzies as Abel Leplastrier
Adam Hayes as Young Oscar
Matyelok Gibbs as Mrs. Williams
Sonia Ritter as Fanny Drabble
Will Barton as College Student
Jonathan Markwood as College Student
Nicholas Tennant as College Student
Sam Newman as George Loxwood
Nicholas Fordham as College Student
Peter Whitford as Mr. Ahearn
Lynette Curran as Mrs. Ahearn
Ron Blanchard as Steamer Captain
Colin Taylor as Frazer
Michelle Doake as Hotel Maid
Karen Vickery as Society Gossip
Elspeth MacTavish as Society Gossip
Leverne McDonnell as Miss Malcolm
Geoff Morrell as Charley Fig
Douglas Hedge as Dog Pit Caller
Tobias Saunders as Belgian Boy
Marianne Borgo as Belgian Grandmother
Vanessa Seydoux as Belgian Mother
Leslie Dayman as Glassworks Foreman
Lucy Bell as Miss Mary Hasset
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