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In Vera Drake, Leigh incorporated elements of his own childhood. He grew up in north Salford, Lancashire, and experienced a very ordinary but socio-economically mixed life as the son of a doctor and a midwife.
Oct 22, 2004 · Oct. 22, 2004 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. “Vera DRAKE’S” 1950 England is unmistakably Mike Leigh’s. A dreary, clamped-down cloister where familial affection, or any manifestation of ...
Oct 16, 2023 · He grew up "very poor," raised by his mother in Toronto, Ontario.
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Apr 10, 2019 · Vera's secret is out. Source: Supplied. Set in an impoverished post-war England, the movie centres on likeable middle-aged housecleaner Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton, Pride) who happily hums her way ...
Oct 21, 2004 · Vera Drake is a melodious plum pudding of a woman who is always humming or singing to herself. She is happy because she is useful, and likes to be useful. She works as a cleaning woman in a rich family's house, where she burnishes the bronze as if it were her own, and then returns home to a crowded flat to cook, clean and mend for her husband, son and daughter, and cheer them up when they seem ...
Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton) is a kind helpful mother and wife to a working-class family. She invites Reg (Eddie Marsan) for dinner and sets him up with daughter Ethel (Alex Kelly). Reg served in the war as well as her husband (Phil Davis) and son (Daniel Mays). She helps the local women with abortions.
Dec 5, 2004 · Vera Drake, though, set in Islington in 1950, offers a more rose-tinted social realism. It is the first time Leigh has tackled that in-between decade. 'I obviously had to set it before the law on ...
