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The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British drama romance film directed by Bryan Forbes, based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Lynne Reid Banks. It tells the story of Jane Fosset ( Leslie Caron ), a young French woman, unmarried and pregnant , who moves into a cheap London boarding house, befriending a young man, Toby ( Tom Bell ), in the building.
The L-Shaped Room. Jane (Leslie Caron) is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After...
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Jane Fosset, a 27-year-old Frenchwoman, leaves her provincial home, moves to London, and spends a loveless weekend with an unemployed actor. She later discovers that she is pregnant, and she moves into a squalid L-shaped room in a Notting Hill boardinghouse and arranges to have an abortion.
Summaries. A single, pregnant woman moves into a London boarding house where she meets a group of fellow misfits. Jane, a young French unmarried mother-to-be, takes a room in a seedy London boardinghouse that is inhabited by an assortment of misfits. She considers getting an abortion, then rethinks this solution.
The L-Shaped Room. Lynne Reid Banks. 3.97. 3,307 ratings243 reviews. In this bestselling classic novel which became a famous film, Jane Graham, alone and pregnant, retreats to a dingy attic bedsit in Fulham where she finds unexpected companionship, happiness and love.
The L-Shaped Room: Directed by Bryan Forbes. With Leslie Caron, Anthony Booth, Avis Bunnage, Patricia Phoenix. A single, pregnant woman moves into a London boarding house where she meets a group of fellow misfits.
