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Budget. $11 million. Box office. $13.3 million [2] 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. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film ...
Oct 21, 2004 · Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. 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.
Apr 11, 2019 · Vera Drake has a parallel sub-plot where a young woman from a wealthy upper middle-class background is raped on a date by a well-heeled lad, becomes pregnant as a result and wants an abortion ...
Feb 23, 2005 · The world of Vera Drake. Mike Leigh's Oscar-nominated film about a backstreet abortionist called Vera Drake has opened the eyes of a modern audience to the dilemmas facing pregnant women before abortion became legal in 1967. Some of those women talk about what it was like. Barbara had three abortions as a young student in 1965 and 1966.
Sep 11, 2004 · Vera Drake, Mike Leigh's tough tale of a working-class mother who is caught performing illegal abortions in 1950s England, has won the 61st Venice Film Festival's coveted Golden Lion. Skip to main ...
Vera Drake: Directed by Mike Leigh. With Imelda Staunton, Richard Graham, Eddie Marsan, Anna Keaveney. Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
Oct 8, 2004 · In "Vera Drake," a new film from the English director Mike Leigh about a back-street abortionist, the moment invariably comes when the title character asks her client to bring her some boiling water.
