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Vera Drake
Directed by
Mike Leigh
R
2004
2h 5m
Crime
,
Drama
7.6
93%
84%
7.2
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Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
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Cast of Vera Drake
Imelda Staunton
Vera Drake
Phil Davis
Stan
Sally Hawkins
Susan Wells
Daniel Mays
Sid
Eddie Marsan
Reg
Alex Kelly
Ethel
Ruth Sheen
Lily
Adrian Scarborough
Frank
Heather Craney
Joyce
Lesley Manville
Mrs. Wells
Simon Chandler
Mr. Wells
Wendy Nottingham
Ivy
Richard Graham
George
Anna Keaveney
Nellie
Peter Wight
Det. Inspector Webster
Martin Savage
Det. Sergeant Vickers
Helen Coker
WPC Best
Jim Broadbent
Judge
Gerard Monaco
Kenny
Leo Bill
Ronny
Vera Drake Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Amy Taubin
The heroine of Mike Leigh's wonderfully subtle and relentlessly harrowing new film is a cheerful, compactly built middle-aged woman who spends her waking hours in perpetual motion.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Puts a tender human face on this explosive subject.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
[Leigh's] best picture in some time.
Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen
All the actors so completely fade away that you come out of the film thinking you've seen the real people, not players reciting a script.
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
Staunton is absolutely astonishing in the title role of this quiet, sad film about the dangers and consequences of what we could call the pre-choice era.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
[The movie] can break your heart.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Staunton is brilliant as Vera.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Gripping and elegantly told.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Boo, hiss and all that -- but I can report that the film left me only vaguely depressed and nothing more.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Staunton is heartbreakingly fine.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Leigh thinks his movie is a social commentary, but it's really an almost-brilliant character study, with an essential piece left out: the moment Vera is revealed to herself.
Seattle Times
Mary Brennan
Vera is the heart of the film, and Staunton gives an exquisite performance.
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
The film is more of a portrait than a story, and as such it is finely wrought and compelling, but the airbrush is overkill.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
One of Leigh's better movies.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A film of pitch-perfect, seemingly effortless performances.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Heartbreaking.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A carefully calibrated parable that quietly sneaks into your heart and prods it sharply.
USA Today
Mike Clark
This is the kind of people-driven story that the movies used to give us -- before special effects took over.
Dallas Morning News
Ms. Staunton is remarkable in the lead role.
San Jose Mercury News
Bruce Newman
The question that makes the movie subversive is one it never asks, even though contemporary audiences probably will: Where would women be if we returned to a world like this?
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