Oranges & Sunshine

IMDb link: 1438216
IMDb rating: 7.1 (6,188 votes)
Genres: Drama, Biography, History
Director: Jim Loach
Cast: Lorraine Ashbourne, Emily Watson, Aisling Loftus, Stuart Wolfenden and others

Release date: 1 Apr 2011
Release year: 2010
Runtime: 105 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, Australia
Keywords: child abuse, deportation, based on true story, child migration sccheme, directorial debut, husband wife relationship, deported child, family conflict, husband wife conflict, mother daughter relationship

Plot:

Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.

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