The Fruit Machine

The Fruit Machine (2018)

The homosexual witch-hunt of public servants and military personnel in Canada from the 1950s through the early 1990s and its effects on the people whose lives and careers were disrupted or destroyed by it.

Date of release
2018-05-01
TMDB
3.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 21m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Sarah Fodey

Casting

Interesting facts

The Fruit Machine is a 2018 Canadian documentary film, directed by Sarah Fodey. The film focuses on the systemic discrimination against LGBT employees of Canada's federal public service and members of the military by the Canadian Armed Forces and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from the 1950s to the 1990s. The film profiles the "fruit machine", a controversial device used by the Canadian government in the 1950s and 1960s in an attempt to identify LGBT employees and disqualify them from the civil service, and its effects on the people whose lives and careers were disrupted or destroyed by the test.

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