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Genres:
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Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Bryan Forbes
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Actors:
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Tom Bell,
Anthony Booth,
Avis Bunnage,
Harry Locke,
Cicely Courtneidge,
Patricia Phoenix,
Verity Edmett,
Ellen Dryden,
Leslie Caron,
Emlyn Williams
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Duration:
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126 min.
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Rating:
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(7.5/10)132
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Plot Summary:
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A ball faces living in a shabby, suburban bed-be patient after being jilted and sinistral in the pudding club. Sharing her anguish with an set of neighbours, they help her to decide whether to have an abortion, in a sensitive study of social morals at the dawning of the Sixties sexual revolution.
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Tags:
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The L-Shaped Room
'It takes all sorts, darling,' says the lesbian music-hall trouper (Courtneidge) to the maiden pregnant French girl (Caron, in her meatiest function). The Notting Hill bedsit they dwell in also hosts a 'strange' black, a tart with a heart of gold (pre-Coronation Street Phoenix) and a paragraphist (Bell), who, naturally, is successful to turn all of this into a novel. Seemingly daring in its age, despite the old-fashioned situation, it looks terribly dated now.
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