Middle Aged Lady Movie Night - Oranges and Sunshine

Oranges and Sunshine is based on a true story of English social worker Margaret Humpheries, who discovers the truth about the forced child migration that occurred for decades.  Young children in care homes and orphanages in the UK, were often told that their parents were dead and were shipped to Australia, Canada and New Zealand.  There they grew up in care homes and were often forced into horrible living conditions and physically, mentally or sexually abused.

It was an interesting watch, as most of the movie was set in the late 80s and doing research must have been so much harder with no internet, computers and cellphones.  Considering how easy it is research anything 30 years later it would be a totally different story if it occurred today.

Oh and now I am writing this up, it came up that I must have seen this before and I totally don't remember.  It is hard being middle aged. 4/5

Oranges and Sunshine

Oranges and Sunshine - DVD (2010)

After a tasty dinner of mashed potatoes, broccoli, carrots and Pork steak, me and my bloated tummy needed to rest up on the couch.  TV was a bit on the dire side, so I had got a couple of DVDs out to watch.

It is based on the true life story set in the 80s of an English social worker Margaret Humphreys, who is asked to look for some missing  family for adults, who as children were sent out to Australia.  Looking into the cases she discovers that thousands of children from childrens homes were told that their parents had died, and they were sent on boats to be placed in childrens homes in Australia, and often abused and neglected.

It was the work of Margaret and her charity that finally resulted in a apologies from the UK and Australian governments to the child migrants.  I had read many of the articles about this case, and would be keen at some stage to read her book.  The movie was a bit dry, and I felt myslef being a bit distracted while watching it.

3/5