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Oranges and Sunshine
Directed by
Jim Loach
R
2010
1h 44m
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7.1
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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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Cast of Oranges and Sunshine
Emily Watson
Margaret Humphreys
Aisling Loftus
Susie
Hugo Weaving
Jack
Lorraine Ashbourne
Nicky
David Wenham
Len
Tara Morice
Pauline
Stuart Wolfenden
Bill
Richard Dillane
Merv Humphreys
Molly Windsor
Rachel
Kate Rutter
Vera
Federay Holmes
Charlotte
Harvey Scrimshaw
Ben
Tammy Wakefield
Susan
Marg Downey
Miss Hutchison
Geoff Revell
Syd
Chrissie Page
Betty
Barbara Marten
Mary
Geoff Morrell
Walter
Tanya Myers
Joan
Russell Dykstra
Dan
Greg Stone
Bob
Alastair G. Cumming
Australia House Official
Robert Purdy
Charity Rep
Carolina Giammetta
Charity Rep
Mark Jardine
Charity Rep
Mandahla Rose
Nurse
Jim Loach
Director
Rona Munro
Writer
Margaret Humphreys
Writer
Camilla Bray
Producer
Iain Canning
Producer
Emile Sherman
Producer
Oranges and Sunshine Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
The sincerity of feeling is unmistakable. So's the flat-footedness of the writing.
Boston Phoenix
A chilling tale? Not when made into a maudlin, completely predictable, mainstream narrative movie by filmmaker Jim Loach.
East Bay Express
Kelly Vance
Earnest, heart-tugging, social problem drama.
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
Yet another reality-based tale of a lone crusader who takes on past injustice, but a fairly good example of this overused genre.
San Francisco Chronicle
Leba Hertz
Emily Watson, who always brings a special grace to the screen, gives a multilayered performance to the role of Margaret Humphreys, who not only puts her own family dynamic at risk but finds herself physically threatened.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The result is a problem drama with more problem than drama.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Emily Watson, a delicate English rose, has never seemed more sturdy than here.
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Leonard Maltin
How often have we seen well-intentioned movies become sanctimonious and lose their dramatic edge? No such accusations can be leveled at Jim Loach's Oranges and Sunshine, an impressive film that...
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The most powerful sequences in the movie are the linked vignettes involving Margaret and the various grown-up children whom she attempts to help in their search for -- what, exactly? Closure? Catharsis?
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
It's powerful, gut-wrenching stuff, and it doesn't need tarting up.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Making a true story of social injustice into a gripping narrative requires more imagination than is contained in this well-intentioned but uninspired effort.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Well-meaning but blandly executed, smothering potentially powerful scenes with earnest do-gooder-film moments.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
As the story ricochets between Britain and Australia, the film often loses track of time and becomes fragmented as it struggles to integrate too many subplots. What holds it together is Ms. Watson's calm, sturdy performance.
NPR
Jeannette Catsoulis
It's all very stiff-upper-lip, when what the subject cries out for is a rant.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the drama, and that's the central problem here.
Observer
Rex Reed
If larger truths have been overlooked, the subject is still wrenching enough to make Oranges and Sunshine an inspired work of dignity and purpose.
Village Voice
Ernest Hardy
Oranges and Sunshine is thrillingly efficient filmmaking.
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
The result is a plodding, overly tasteful procedural that holds up its hero as an incorruptible embodiment of goodness.
The Hollywood Reporter
Natasha Senjanovic
Jim Loach (son of Ken Loach) has his heart in the right place for his feature debut, but a plodding script and muted staging strangely strip away the emotional punch.
Variety
Richard Kuipers
A deeply moving study of emotionally scarred adults who were illegally deported as children to Australia from Britain in the 1940s and '50s.
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