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The film is based on the true story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered the scandal of "home children", [3] a scheme of forcibly relocating poor children from the United Kingdom to Australia and Canada.
Oct 26, 2011 · Based on the true story of the collusion between British and Australian governments to illegally ship tens of thousands of children from the U.K. to Australia for more than a century, well into the late 1960s, Oranges and Sunshine is thrillingly efficient filmmaking.
Oct 20, 2011 · Oranges and Sunshine, based on the 1994 book Empty Cradles by Nottingham social worker Margaret Humphreys, deals with the fallout from the forced — and largely secret — migration of English...
Dec 6, 2010 · Oranges and Sunshine is based on the novel Empty Cradles by Margaret Humphreys. Hugo Weaving and Emily Watson in Oranges and Sunshine. Released 6 December 2010.
Oct 20, 2011 · Oranges and Sunshine is a true-life drama that tells the story of Margaret Humphreys (played by Emily Watson), a social worker from Nottingham, England who uncovered one of the most...
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Oct 20, 2011 · If the film, adapted from Ms. Humphreys’s 1994 book, “Empty Cradles,” tells a true-life horror story, it refrains from exploiting that story for cheap shock.
Mar 16, 2011 · Based on a true story, Watson plays Margaret Humphreys, a former social worker from Nottingham who, in 1986, uncovered the organised deportation of more than 100,000 children in care.
