oranges and Sunshine

Last Thursday I went to the Balmoral cinema to see the movie "Oranges and Sunshine". it's 1986 in Nottingham,England and social worker Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson) meets an Australian lady name Charlotte (Federay Holmes) and another lady named Nicky (Lorraine Ashbourne) wanting to know who they really are and what happened as they were put away on an boat to Australia with many other children as they were told their parents had died and were put in institutions where they went through hard labour. Margaret goes to Australia where she meets Nicky's Brother jack(Hugo Weaving) as well as Len(David Wenham) and many others who went through similar experiences and Margaret starts to uncover an lot of stuff that happened to those children. It's sad,touching and an BRILLIANT movie with Brilliant acting by Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Lorraine Ashbourne, Federay Holmes as well as Tara Morice, Geoff Morrell, Marg Downey and others. it was filmed in Adelaide and Wirksworth,Derbyshire,England as well as Nottingham . It is directed by Jim Loach which it's his first film he has ever directed having worked on TV including Coronation Street and is the son of Director ken Loach whose been around since the 60's. it is based on the Book "Empty Cradles" by Margaret Humphreys which Rona Munro adapted it for the screen and it's just sad which you can feel for those people who went through an terrible ordeal and were forced to go on the boats to Australia & canada and of course in recent years both Kevin Rudd(Australian Prime Minster til 2010) and Gordon Brown(British Prime Minster) said sorry for the shameful child resettlement program. It's an Must for any Australian movie fan to see. i give this 5 stars and it's currently running in the cinemas.