The L-Shaped Room
The L-Shaped Room

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Jane, a young French unmarried mother-to-be, takes a room in a seedy London boardinghouse that is inhabited by an assortment of misfits. She considers getting an abortion, then rethinks this solution. She falls into a relationship with Toby, a struggling your writer who stays on the first floor. Eventually she comes to like her odd room and makes friends with all the unique characters in the house. But she still faces two problems: what to do with her baby, and what to do abo... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The L-Shaped Room:

Leslie Caron
Tom Bell
Brock Peters
Bernard Lee
Avis Bunnage
Patricia Phoenix

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Jane, a young French unmarried mother-to-be, takes a room in a seedy London boardinghouse that is inhabited by an assortment of misfits. She considers getting an abortion, then rethinks this solution. She falls into a relationship with Toby, a struggling your writer who stays on the first floor. Eventually she comes to like her odd room and makes friends with all the unique characters in the house. But she still faces two problems: what to do with her baby, and what to do about Toby.

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Monthly Film Bulletin - 9/10 by MFB CriticsLeslie Caron has never been more appealing.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 8/10 by Dennis SchwartzCaron's heartfelt, out of type, performance as the lonely lady in trouble, makes the sensitive pic, a mixture of muddle and insight, watchable.
Film Threat - 6/10 by Phil HallGlamorous Leslie Caron is seriously out of place in this drab kitchen-sink drama.
User Review - 10/10 by Jessica DThis movie portrays the conflict between love and pride beautifully...
User Review - 10/10 by Mikey MThis films great. filmed at the dawn of the sixties sexual revolution, it musta been pretty controversial in its day...covering homosexuality, abortion and and a good bit of pre- marital shinnanigins. Portrays contemporary attitudes very well to unmarried mothers and the hush hush style of lesbianism. Tragic really, how women were often forced into terminations as they were deemed unfit to survive without male support. Gritty at times, addressing impoverished living , but not without fun times in smoky jazz clubs and days out in the park..where incidentally one should not lie down on the grass with a member of the opposite sex, for fear of getting a severe wrist slapping.
User Review - 10/10 by Tom WMasterpiece of British kitchen sink dramas with Tom Bell and Leslie Caron at their acting peaks and and a superb supporting cast of Limey character actors. The Smiths sampled "Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty" (The Queen Is Dead) from this classic.
User Review - 10/10 by Julia EThis is a wonderful adaptation to Lynne Reid Banks' novel of the same title. A lovely impression of people and attitudes in 1960s London.
User Review - 8/10 by Melissa SPretty racy movie for the time. Leslie Caron is great.
User Review - 8/10 by Wellington OBritain in the 'sixties had the knack of making great movies and this is no exception. An atomospheric London-set drama, vividly acted. Caron acquits herself well in an untypical role, while the late Tom Bell was a vastly under-rated actor. While the book (by Lynne Reid Banks) is fine, the film improves upon it.
User Review - 8/10 by JohnnyLee TTouching, intelligent performance from Leslie Caron and striking direction from Bryan Forbes. It does have a bit of the " kitchen sink" feel about it, but if you like human drama around real situations, this movie will truly affect you. And Leslie Caron, who is never off the screen, is just charming to watch. I loved all the characters in the boarding house - they give the writer the opportunity to look at sex/love in many different guises. Even though society is now more open and accepting, people can still find themselves in similar situations to the characters in the movie, particularly in conservative countries. Anyhow, it is intriguing to see how the people have ended up where they are, to learn their back-stories. This must be one of the earliest movies to show a gay man as a sympathetic character. At the time it was made homosexuality was still a criminal offence in England. Titbit: Writer/director Forbes' wife Nanette Newman appears in a small role as a tenant of the boarding house.

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