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A woman faces life in a shabby, suburban bed-sit after being jilted and left pregnant. Sharing her desperation with an assortment 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. Read more

Starring Cicely Courtneidge, Brock Peters, Leslie Caron, Tom Bell
Director Bryan Forbes
Genres Drama

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The L-Shaped Room

A woman faces life in a shabby, suburban bed-sit after being jilted and left pregnant. Sharing her desperation with an assortment 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.

Starring Cicely Courtneidge, Brock Peters, Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Pat Phoenix
Director Bryan Forbes
Studio OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 2 hrs
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Genres Drama
Language English
Released DVD: 04 Jun 2007
Production year: 1962
Format DVD

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  • A queasy sample of the 'new British realism' of the early '60s, based on a novel by Lynne Reid Banks, with Caron as a... read more on Time Out

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    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    Book was better

    I read and enjoyed Lynne Reid Banks 'The L-Shaped Room' and enjoyed it so I thought I'd watch the film as well. The story has been changed so much from the book that I was very disappointed. I didn't see the point of altering it to such a degree as the book was better. Despite these adaptations, it was a good film.

      • A customer from London
      • Posted 04 Aug 2007 10:46

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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    Book was better

    I read and enjoyed Lynne Reid Banks 'The L-Shaped Room' and enjoyed it so I thought I'd watch the film as well. The story has been changed so much from the book that I was very disappointed. I didn't see the point of altering it to such a degree as the book was better. Despite these adaptations, it was a good film.

      • A customer from London
      • Posted 04 Aug 2007 10:46

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