Oranges and Sunshine

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Lee L Such a sad, touching movie. Just proves one person can make a change. My heart goes out to all the families left heartbroken by yet another situation that has been buried. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/28/25 Full Review Raven M This movie is heartbreaking for several reasons. On the same level as "The Sound of Freedom", the British government saw these children as a deficit. Born to either unwed mothers or very poor women, their solution was to quietly send these children to Australia by lying to them. Most were taken into to state care via social service due to unfit homes. The mothers were lied to and told their children had been adopted into loving homes with better living conditions while the children were told their mothers had died. Many went into orphanages and doled out to less-than-ideal living situations where they were used as slave labor, or abused physically, mentally, emotionally and sometimes sexually by the people who were supposed to be caring for them. One day, it comes to the attention of a social worker who is determined to uncover the truth and possibly re-unite adult children who just want to know who they are. The scandal exposed by her search for the truth causes both governments to take responsibility for this violation of human rights and further shines a light on how far back and how deeply human trafficing goes. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/28/23 Full Review Daniel Decent kDrama, but does paint Korean's as pretty bad people. So many annoying characters, really frustrating actors, but the wife enjoys it! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/28/22 Full Review christopher c. m I know this is based on a true story, though I have no idea how much is based in fact and how much is fiction. Because movies always change things, from tiny things to turning real people to other races or genders to major plot points. Sometimes these "true" stores is only one tiny piece of reality. That said, since I don't know what happened and what's fiction I won't go further. But I can say this when it comes to true stories. You need who, what, when, where and why. The movie supplies us with who, what, when and where but forgets something important WHY? Why did they do that? Were the real kids black and the movie left that fact out? Was it racist? Was it they were poor? Was it a classicist action? Leaving out why makes this a exercise in just talking. And that is why the movie fails, not bothering to find out why? The motive of such a horrible act. The movie has no stance to stand on. Honestly without the WHY the plot real or not makes no sense. We needed WHY! Plus another movie that doesn't earn the R rating because of the stupid ONE F-bomb rule which I will keep calling the conservative MPAA on for being stupid. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Important story tied to a fairly engrossing screenplay. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member História bem triste sobre crianças enviadas para outro país contra sua vontade e como uma mulher ajudou-as a reencontrar suas origens. O filme tem alguns momentos bem clichês e outros um tanto inesperados que causaram uma certa surpresa positiva. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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