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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. 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 ...
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Oct 10, 2004 · 93% Tomatometer 162 Reviews 84% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings In 1950s England, housekeeper Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton) is a kindly wife and mother who offers selfless devotion and unwavering ...
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- Mike Leigh
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- Imelda Staunton
Oct 10, 2004 · Technically, it's a low-key movie. It was directed by Mike Leigh, who had to play with few resources and a very low budget. Perhaps that explains why the sets, although beautifully designed, seem so claustrophobic, in particular Vera Drake's house, where everyone seems to huddle together for dinner.
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- Imelda Staunton
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Vera Drake is a selfless woman who is completely devoted to, and loved by, her working class family. She spends her days doting on them and caring for her sick neighbor and elderly mother. However, she also secretly visits women and helps them induce miscarriages for unwanted pregnancies. While the practice itself was illegal in 1950s England ...
- Mike Leigh
- 2 min
Our review: Parents say: ( 1 ): Kids say: Not yet rated Rate movie. This film is strictly for adults, but VERA DRAKE is a heavy film no matter what your age. Director Mike Leigh paints a sympathetic picture of Vera, who performs the abortions not for money but only to, as she puts it, "help young girls."
- Mike Leigh
- Tony Nigro
- Imelda Staunton, Peter Wight, Philip Davis
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 ...
Full Review | Feb 20, 2024. Wesley Lovell Cinema Sight. Vera Drake acts as a potent reminder of where society has been and it was a frightening and dangerous period of history that no woman should ...
