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- 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.
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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.
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Oct 22, 2004 · Set in a pre-Thatcher Britain but produced in a post-Thatcher world, “Vera Drake” feels like a paean to a bygone society. Bursting through her door to prepare dinner for her family, having ...
Dec 22, 2004 · Imelda Staunton delivers a career-best performance in Brit director Mike Leigh's Vera Drake, an engrossing drama about a down-to-earth woman performing backstreet abortions in 50s London.
Vera Drake is a 2004 British period drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Daniel Mays and Eddie Marsan. It tells the story of a working-class woman in London in 1950 who performs illegal abortions.
Tender, quality presentation of touchy subject. Read Common Sense Media's Vera Drake review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Mike Leigh
- Tony Nigro
- Imelda Staunton, Peter Wight, Philip Davis
Jan 9, 2005 · Imelda Staunton's portrayal of Vera Drake, a back-street abortionist, is a tour de force in Mike Leigh's masterpiece
Dec 5, 2004 · For all its dramatic strengths, though, and its painterly formal beauty, Vera Drake is, in places, a curiously heavy-handed film in which the upper class are portrayed as mostly cold and...
