
The Oranges(2011)
A man's affair with his friend's much-younger daughter throws two neighboring families into turmoil.


A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.

Benedict Cumberbatch
Stephen Lewis

Kelly Macdonald
Julie Lewis

Stephen Campbell Moore
Charles Darke

Saskia Reeves
Thelma Darke

Andrea Hall
Policewoman

Jim Creighton
Male Neighbour
Beatrice White
Kate Lewis
Rosa-Marie Lewis
Shop Assistant

Franc Ashman
Lydia Webb

Anna Madeley
Rachel Murray
The Child in Time is a tv movie, drama film released in 2018 exploring themes of based on novel or book, marriage crisis, time travel, british prime minister, dream sequence, estranged couple. Directed by Julian Farino, it stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Kelly Macdonald, Stephen Campbell Moore. A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.
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