Oranges and Sunshine

Based on a book which is based on the true story of a social worker in 1980s England who discovered her own country had until the 1970s illegally deported 300,000 children that were in the care of the state to Australia. Once there, they worked as child slaves for several different organizations. The social worker uncovered the stories of the children and is to this day still helping the children find their families in England. Many of the children were taken from their parents and when the parents came to get them back they were told the kids had been adopted - the children were told their parents had died. What makes this movie rated R are the stories that some of the boys tell - what happened to them when they arrived at a boys camp run by the Catholic Church, so you can imagine what the stories were about. The actors in this film are a who's who of Australian Film - Hugo Weaving (Matrix - FYI he was actually born in Nigeria), David Wenham (300), Tara Morice (Strictly Ballroom), and British actress Emily Watson that won an award for Breaking Waves. I cried several times. All in all, I say: SEE IT especially if you want to feel a little better about how the American Empire has used people - see how the British Empire has used people.