Watch The L-Shaped Room (1962) Free Online

Release Date: 1962

Cast: Avis Bunnage, Brock Peters, Gerald Sim, Verity Edmett, Leslie Caron, Bernard Lee, Nanette Newman, Tom Bell, Pat Phoenix

Categories: Movies, Film Adaptation, Ensemble Film, Drama Film, Kitchen Sink Realism

The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British drama film, directed by Bryan Forbes, which tells the story of a young French woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London boarding house, befriending a young man in the building. It stars Leslie Caron and Tom Bell. The movie was adapted by Bryan Forbes from the novel by Lynne Reid Banks. Leslie Caron's performance won her the Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for best actress, and also earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for best actress. A young French woman, Jane Fosset (Caron), arrives alone at a rundown boarding house in Fulham,... MORE

The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British drama film, directed by Bryan Forbes, which tells the story of a young French woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London boarding house, befriending a young man in the building. It stars Leslie Caron and Tom Bell. The movie was adapted by Bryan Forbes from the novel by Lynne Reid Banks. Leslie Caron's performance won her the Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for best actress, and also earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for best actress. A young French woman, Jane Fosset (Caron), arrives alone at a rundown boarding house in Fulham, London, moving into an L-shaped room. Beautiful but withdrawn, she encounters the residents of her house, each a social outsider in his or her own way. Jane is pregnant and has no desire to marry the father. On her first visit to a doctor, she wants to find out if she really is pregnant and consider her options. The doctor's facile assumption that she must want either marriage or an abortion insults her to the extent that Jane determines to have the child. She and Toby (Bell) start a romance, which is disrupted when he learns that she is pregnant by a previous suitor. They try to work things out, LESS