{"id":354871,"date":"2011-03-31T21:26:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T21:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/31\/oranges-and-sunshine-actually-has-a-story-worth-telling\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T21:26:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T21:26:59","slug":"oranges-and-sunshine-actually-has-a-story-worth-telling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/oranges-and-sunshine-actually-has-a-story-worth-telling\/","title":{"rendered":"Oranges And Sunshine actually has a story worth telling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"87.690235690236\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Chris+Tookey\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Tookey<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 10:26 PM on 31st March 2011<\/p>\n<p><span>Verdict:<\/span> Bright and moving<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<span><span><span title=\"Oranges And Sunshine actually has a story worth telling\n\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"Chris Tookey\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"2011-03-31T21:37+0100\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nRating: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rating\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/23bc6690g_showbiz_4.gif.gif\" width=\"55\" height=\"9\" alt=\"4 Star Rating\" title=\"4 out of 5\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Happily, Oranges And Sunshine is at the opposite end of the intelligence spectrum, and it\u2019s a pleasure to welcome one movie that won\u2019t damage your brain cells and actually has a story worth telling.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-one-year-old Jim Loach seems to have inherited his father Ken\u2019s taste for socially conscious film-making, and he\u2019s done a decent job here.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/847e50c3943_468x286.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"286\" alt=\"Bright and moving: Hugo Weaving and Emily Watson star in Oranges And Sunshine\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bright and moving: Hugo Weaving and Emily Watson star in Oranges And Sunshine<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is the gripping true story of Nottingham social worker Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson), who discovered an all too real scandal: that from the 1890s through to 1970, the British government deported 130,000 children, some of whom had living parents, to become slave labour and\/or abuse victims in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a shocking story, and Loach approaches it responsibly, never wallowing in the suffering of the young. Hearing adults recount their terrible childhood experiences is quite powerful enough.<\/p>\n<p>Watson is determined yet vulnerable, and she\u2019s ably supported by a predominantly Australian cast, with Hugo Weaving and David Wenham outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>This is a film that would be just as effective on television, and it\u2019s probably too low-key and depressing to be a hit. The thrillerish aspects \u2014 menacing phone-calls, sinister priests \u2014 aren\u2019t followed through. And it begs more questions than it answers about the abusers and government policy.<\/p>\n<p>All the same, this is a moving, thoughtful, grown-up film that\u2019s a genuine eye-opener.<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/847e50c3943_468x286.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/reviews\/article-1372111\/Oranges-And-Sunshine-actually-story-worth-telling.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Oranges And Sunshine actually has a story worth telling\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oranges And Sunshine actually has a story worth telling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Chris Tookey Last updated at 10:26 PM on 31st March 2011 Verdict: Bright and moving Rating: Happily, Oranges And Sunshine is at the opposite end of the intelligence spectrum, and it\u2019s a pleasure to welcome one movie that won\u2019t damage your brain cells and actually has a story worth telling. Forty-one-year-old Jim Loach seems to have inherited his father Ken\u2019s taste for socially conscious film-making, and he\u2019s done a decent job here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Oranges And Sunshine actually has a story worth telling - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/oranges-and-sunshine-actually-has-a-story-worth-telling\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Oranges And Sunshine actually has a story worth telling - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Chris Tookey Last updated at 10:26 PM on 31st March 2011 Verdict: Bright and moving Rating: Happily, Oranges And Sunshine is at the opposite end of the intelligence spectrum, and it\u2019s a pleasure to welcome one movie that won\u2019t damage your brain cells and actually has a story worth telling. 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