Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1990)

Directed by

Beeban Kidron

Genre

LGBT-related television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 3 episodes

Rated

12

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman grows up in a strict religious community in England. When she starts to question her faith and her feelings for another woman, her family and church force a crisis.

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What happens

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a 1990 BBC television drama miniseries, directed by Beeban Kidron. Jeanette Winterson wrote the screenplay, adapting her semi-autobiographical first novel of the same name (published 1985). The BBC produced and screened three episodes, running to a total of 2 hours and 45 minutes. A 145-minute continuous version was screened at the London Film Festival on 25 November 1989. The series was released on DVD in 2005. The series won the BAFTA award for Best Drama Series or Serial. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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