Oranges and Sunshine (2010)

Cast:
  • Hugo Weaving,
  • Emily Watson,
  • David Wenham,
  • Tara Morice,
  • Clayton Watson,
  • Aisling Loftus,
  • Kate Rutter,
  • Lorraine Ashbourne,
  • Alastair Cumming,
  • Adam Tedder,
  • Adam Morgan,
  • Neil Melville,
  • Harvey Scrimshaw,
  • John Robinson,
  • Ruth Rickman,
  • Tess O'Flaherty,
  • Margaret Turner,
  • Geoff Morrell,
  • Sladana Vranjes,
  • Federay Holmes,
  • Kurt Bayly,
  • Neil May,
  • John Howard,
  • Carolina Giammetta,
  • Kate Box,
  • Mandahla Rose,
  • Marie Wheeler-King,
  • Chris Koch,
  • Molly Windsor,
  • Helen Grayson,
  • Neil Pigot,
  • Marg Downey,
  • Richard Dillane,
  • Russell Dykstra,
  • Karen Power,
  • Tammy Wakefield,
  • Hef Lawry,
  • Jude Henshall,
  • Greg Stone,
  • Stuart Wolfenden,
  • Neil Broome
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description:

Oranges and Sunshine is a 2010 drama film directed by Jim Loach with screenplay by Rona Munro.

plot:

The film tells the 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 UK to Australia and Canada. Margaret reunites estranged families and brings worldwide attention to the cause. Deported children were promised oranges and sunshine but they got hard labour and life in institutions such as Keaney College in Bindoon, Western Australia.