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Oranges and Sunshine

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Format: Blu-ray April 12, 2022


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Oranges and Sunshine tells the story of Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson, two- time Academy Award® nominee for Breaking the Waves and Hilary and Jackie), a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals of recent times: the deportation of thousands of children from the United Kingdom to Australia. Children as young as four had been told that their parents were dead, and been sent to children’s homes on the other side of the world. Many were subjected to appalling abuse. They were promised oranges and sunshine: they got hard labor and life in institutions. Almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds, and with little regard for her own well-being, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and drew worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.Special Features: -Trailers

Genre: Drama


Format: Blu-ray


Contributor: Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Jim Loach


Language: English


Runtime: 1 hour and 46 minutes


Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.391


MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)


Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 5 x 1 inches; 2.4 ounces


Director ‏ : ‎ Jim Loach


Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray


Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 46 minutes


Release date ‏ : ‎ April 12, 2022


Actors ‏ : ‎ Emily Watson, David Wenham, Hugo Weaving


Studio ‏ : ‎ Cohen Media Group.


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    • If you have not you have missed a truly amazing heart warming and heroic story that will touch your ...
I have just watched "Oranges and Sunshine" I've had it for awhile but was not ready to watch it. If you have not you have missed a truly amazing heart warming and heroic story that will touch your heart. It is not only of the children's plight but that England discarded nearly 130,000 children from the 1940's and on. In 1986 a woman came to Margaret to try to find out who she was and to find her mother, and then Nicky came to her looking for her brother Jack, these two stories had the same beginning so Margaret looked into their stories. Until the early 1970s, thousands of British children -- many orphans, others taken by social workers from broken homes -- were packed onto ships bound for Australia. Promised "oranges and sunshine," they were gong to the land of Oz! But instead endured abuse in workhouses as virtual slaves. In 1987, Nottingham, England, social worker Margaret Humphreys learns the horrific extent of this program as she attempts to help these two of its survivors, the timid Jack and the violent Len and find out so much more. Based on true events, the real Margaret Humphreys was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1993, and awarded Commander of the British Empire in 2011 for her work. It's the story of the children who survived and of Margaret Humphries and her husband Melvyn social workers who tried to help these children who were discarded and sent off to Australia on ships to work on farms beaten,raped and made to work until their debt was paid. They like so many wanted to know the Who, what, and why were they there and if anyone truly loved them, and why did no one care. Some never made it! I thought I had it bad at St. Annes Orphanage in Worcester Mass but truth be told I now see we were just disciplined for our mischievousness and bad behavior. I do know that I felt the same as these children because I felt empty and unworthy not knowing the why's. I was fortunate I got a second chance in life and believe I made it count. It took so many years for England to admit their wrongs to these children nothing in the world could repay what they had done! Their wounds would never heal. In 1986 victims were pressing for an apology from the British government, which ultimately was delivered by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in February 2010. Bearing in mind the shocking truths of this story, I know it will be with me for a long time. Watch this and consider how lucky you are! Sent from my iPad ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2016 by Amazon Customer
    • Beautiful, imprtant, meaningful work that captures and will not release you
I am left with a huge heartache after watching this movie. The details of the suffering precious thousands of children endured, not to mention their parents, at the hands of the British and Australian governments are nearly unendurable and incomprehensible. But, as the movie makes clear, blame is not really helpful. It's part of the human tragedy that the weak and innocent suffer at the hands of the evil and powerful. It's happened countless millions of times and will continue for countless millions more. The most important takeaways from this work are that one person can change things and also that when a person puts his or her heart and soul into that change, the effort is what is important, not the fact that change doesn't mean all wounds are healed or wrongs righted. Like that anecdote about the man throwing sea animals back into the sea from the shore who was told he was not making any difference, one has to say, "It made a difference to that one." As a person who tries to be one of those people, I found that encouraging and restoring. The question in a situation like this inevitably arises, "Why would God allow something like this?" Well, evil is in charge in the world, not God. He gave the world to us, and we have made a mess of it. But those who did these crimes against children will ultimately face the justice of a righteous God, if they have not already. As Luke 17:2 quotes Jesus, "It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble." Emily Watson, who played Margaret Humphreys is a sensitive and skilled actor. Her gentle but strong demeanor.is comforting and completely believable. When I see her name on the credits of a movie, I know it will be worth watching. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2015 by Jay Dee
    • This was not an exclusively a midcentury phenomenon
There's a wonderfully written, well documented book called White Cargo which covers 170 years, beginning in the Elizabethan period, when poor British subjects were deported to the colonies to work as 'indentured servants' but were often treated worse than African slaves, since they had not been paid for. Few outlived the terms their indenture because starvation, beatings, rapes and other tortures were commonplace. Many of the transported were children, orphaned, or kidnapped from big cities and had very short lifespans, particularly if they had the misfortune to end up in the tobacco fields of the new world. Sadly, Britain returned to that policy in the post war era, with social services imposing their will on the poor or unwed and shipping confiscated children abroad instead of spending funds to care for them at home. Unfortunately once the children arrived at their destinations instead of being adopted they were [ again ] used as slave labor. This film recounts the story of a brave English social worker who discovers and exposes such cases in Australia after she is contacted by a woman who is searching for her birth mother. Once again the Catholic church shows up as the most inhumane of charities -and even if you thought the Magdalene laundries were heinous, nothing will prepare you for the neglect and shocking abuses, physical, mental, sexual and emotional that these children lived through at the hands of the 'Holy Bothers' and other incredibly predatory adults. Emily Watson plays the social worker as a model of restraint and tireless good will. Rather than being emotionally subdued, she beautifully 'holds space' for the adult survivors as they relive their harrowing stories, knowing that there is nothing one can do or say to make the trauma and pain go away or the victim feel better, until she herself begins to suffer from post traumatic disorder. Reads as a docudrama but is an important story with a terrific cast of supporting players. Well worth seeing. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2014 by lily t.

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