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.

• DirectorGillian Armstrong
• Release31 December 1997
• Genre
  Drama / Romance
• Duration2h 12m
• Budget$16,000,000
• Revenue$1,897,404
• Rate
  

  6.4
  77 reviews
• Productions

  Fox Searchlight Pictures, Dalton Films, Australian Film Finance Corporation