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Oranges and Sunshine is a Australien film of genre Drama directed by Jim Loach released in USA on 21 october 2011 with Emily Watson
Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
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Add to a movie listOranges and Sunshine is a 2010 drama film directed by Jim Loach with a screenplay by Rona Munro, based on the book Empty Cradles by Margaret Humphreys.
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The film is based on the true story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered the scandal of "home children", a scheme of forcibly relocating poor children from the United Kingdom to Australia and Canada.Actors
Emily Watson
(Margaret Humphreys)
Hugo Weaving
(Jack)
David Wenham
(Len)
Richard Dillane
(Merv Humphreys)
Tara Morice
(Pauline)
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