*ing: Imelda Staunton, Adrian Scarborough, Peter Wright, Daniel Mays, Philip Davis
Genre: Drama
Few months back I had watched a Romanian movie titled '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days', original Romanian title '4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile'. It was a movie on abortions in the communist ruled Romania whereby abortions were illegal and a punishable offense. 'Vera Drake' works around the same topic of abortions ... except this is Britain and not Romania and the period is 1950's and though Britain was not a communist regime abortion was illegal as per the law and punishable. Enter Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton) a lady in her late 40's or early 50's types, a loving caring daughter, a dedicated wife, mother of 2 kids and a dark secret side of Vera Drake, that of a secret midwife helping young girls / ladies to
terminate their unwanted pregnancies risking the law and doing it for no
monetary gain. All is well in Vera's life her social life remains
social and her secrets remain secrets until one of the ladies develops a
complication post the abortion procedure and Vera's secret is now a police case
and her family and friends are at shock to discover the other side of
Vera.
Watch this movie for brilliant performance of Imelda Staunton who plays the lead. Mike Leigh's direction and screenplay, if you do not know who is Mike Leigh, look him up on IMDB and watch some of his works (I recommend 'Happy Go Lucky' for starters) ... you will start respecting this man :-)
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383694/
Rottentomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/vera_drake/
Genre: Drama
Few months back I had watched a Romanian movie titled '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days', original Romanian title '4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile'. It was a movie on abortions in the communist ruled Romania whereby abortions were illegal and a punishable offense. 'Vera Drake' works around the same topic of abortions ... except this is Britain and not Romania and the period is 1950's and though Britain was not a communist regime abortion was illegal as per the law and punishable. Enter Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton) a lady in her late 40's or early 50's types, a loving caring daughter, a dedicated wife, mother of 2 kids and a dark secret side of Vera Drake, that of a secret midwife helping young girls / ladies to
terminate their unwanted pregnancies risking the law and doing it for no
monetary gain. All is well in Vera's life her social life remains
social and her secrets remain secrets until one of the ladies develops a
complication post the abortion procedure and Vera's secret is now a police case
and her family and friends are at shock to discover the other side of
Vera. Watch this movie for brilliant performance of Imelda Staunton who plays the lead. Mike Leigh's direction and screenplay, if you do not know who is Mike Leigh, look him up on IMDB and watch some of his works (I recommend 'Happy Go Lucky' for starters) ... you will start respecting this man :-)
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383694/
Rottentomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/vera_drake/
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