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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989)
Not about Cults
This movie, contradictory to what the previous person posted, is not out to portray cults. The movie, based on Jeanette Winterson's novel, is exactly that: about portraying a novel. The movie follows the ideas and thoughts of the novel very well. A young girl who is raised in an adoptive, very religious family, intended to be a missionary for their cause, finds herself. She grows intellectually and spiritually in this movie, yet not in the manner her mother intended. She embraces her lesbianism, and is shunned from her church. She realizes who is important in her life, and her biggest role models slowly disappear from her life. One of the women that protect her dies, and causes even more problems for her, after she thought things were getting better on her own. To better understand the movie, I recommend reading the book.