Oranges and Sunshine
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- Drama
- History
Overview
The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia and other Commonwealth countries. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.
Keywords
- based on true story
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 8, 2010
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom, Australia
- Production
- Screen Australia,See-Saw Films,BBC Film,Icon Productions,EM Media,Sixteen Films,Little Gaddesden Productions,Creative Europe Media
- Cast
- Emily Watson,Aisling Loftus,Hugo Weaving,Lorraine Ashbourne,David Wenham,Tara Morice,Stuart Wolfenden,Richard Dillane,Molly Windsor,Kate Rutterand 16 more
- Director
- Jim Loach
- Writer
- Rona Munro,Margaret Humphreys
- Producer
- Emile Sherman,Iain Canning,Camilla Bray
- Cinematography
- Denson Baker
- Music
- Lisa Gerrard
- Budget
- $4,500,000
- Revenue
- $5,017,653
- IMDb
- tt1438216