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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 (), in the building.
- $1 million (US/Canada rentals)
- John Barry
- 20 November 1962 (United Kingdom)
- Romulus Films
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 renting a ...
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- Leslie Caron
- Bryan Forbes
- Drama
The L-Shaped Room is a 1960 British novel by Lynne Reid Banks which tells the story of a young woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London boarding house, befriending a young man in the building. It was adapted into a film, with significant differences from the novel, by Bryan Forbes .
- Lynne Reid Banks
- 269 pp (Paperback)
- 1960
- 1960
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The L-Shaped Room was the second film directed and scripted by actor-screenwriter-director Bryan Forbes, following the wonderful Whistle Down the Wind (1961). Forbes would go on to direct other quirky independent films such as Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) and The Whisperers (1966), as well as the glitzy Hollywood cult film, The Stepford ...
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. She falls into a relationship with Toby, a struggling young writer who stays on the first floor. Eventually she comes to like her odd room and ...
