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    Oranges and Sunshine

    R2011 · Historical drama · 1h 45m

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  1. Starting in the 1940s and continuing until as recently as 1967, hundreds of thousands of British children, some as young as 4 years old, were separated from poor families and single mothers and shipped to Australia, where in church institutions they were used as child labor and sometimes abused and raped. Their parents were assured they had been sent to "a loving family," and given no other ...

  2. Oranges & Sunshine is a well-made film, but its importance surpasses its ability to entertain. Apr 16, 2022. A work of controlled, retrospective outrage, telling the bizarre true story of how tens ...

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  3. R. 1h 45m. By Stephen Holden. Oct. 20, 2011. In the quietly wrenching “Oranges and Sunshine” Emily Watson portrays Margaret Humphreys, an intrepid social worker from Nottingham, England, who ...

  4. Box office. $6,299,747 [1] Oranges and Sunshine is a 2010 biographical drama film directed by Jim Loach, in his directorial debut, with a screenplay by Rona Munro, based on the 1994 book Empty Cradles by Margaret Humphreys. [2] The film stars Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving and David Wenham .

  5. Oct 16, 2011 · Review: Oranges and Sunshine. The film is an almost self-consciously staid recreation of Margaret Humphreys’s mid-1980s efforts to bring light to a national atrocit. In Oranges and Sunshine, Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson) repeatedly insists that her mission to uncover the truth behind a mid-20th-century U.K.-to-Australia child-migration ...

  6. Oranges & Sunshine is a well-made film, but its importance surpasses its ability to entertain. Full Review | Apr 16, 2022. Leigh Paatsch Herald Sun (Australia) A work of controlled, retrospective ...

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  8. Nov 1, 2010 · Oranges and Sunshine — Film Review. Prolific TV director Jim Loach (son of Ken Loach) has his heart in the right place for his feature debut “Sunshine and Oranges,” but a plodding script and ...

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