Summary:
Australian director Gillian Armstrong directed this Laura Jones adaptation of Peter Carey's 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel. In a lengthy flashback, Oscar Hopkins' great grandson (Geoffrey Rush) narrates the family history that led to his birth. On an Australian farm, Lucinda Leplastrier was tutored by her intelligent mother, a woman who took part in the early feminist ... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Ralph Fiennes - (Oscar Hopkins)
Cate Blanchett - (Lucinda Leplastrier)
Ciarán Hinds - (Rev. Dennis Hasset)
Tom Wilkinson - (Hugh Stratton)
Richard Roxburgh - (Mr. Jeffris)
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Review:
This luminous literary adaptation stays just the right side of precious and pretentious in tracing the love between two unlikely gamblers, one a proto-feminist heiress who seems determined to squander both fortune and reputation, the other a sheltered Anglican minister who sees proof of God's handiwork in the constellation of his poker cards. Altho... Continue >>

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