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Vera Drake (2004)
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Reviews Counted: 153
Fresh: 141
Rotten:12
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Consensus: With a piercingly powerful performance by Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake brings teeming humanity to the controversial subject of abortion.
Theatrical Release: Oct 10, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $3,627,889
Synopsis: Mike Leigh produces another devastating masterpiece with the heartbreaking VERA DRAKE. Imelda Staunton is the title character, beloved wife of Stan (Phil Davis) and mother of Sid (Daniel Mays) and Ethel (Alex Kelly). Vera spends her... [More]
Starring: Imelda Staunton, Philip Davis, Peter Wight, Eddie Marsan
Director: Mike Leigh
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Reviews for Vera Drake
In a hopelessly polarized debate, Leigh allows us to see real people involved in real situations. The film will keep people on either side of the abortion debates talking.
11/10/06
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Top Critic Word "great" doesn't do justice to what Imelda Staunton delivers with her performance.
11/04/05
Staunton lends the role of Vera a great emotional complexity, eschewing any facile moral response to the social and sexual issues at the heart of the film.
06/21/05
Imelda Staunton delivers an indelible performance as a woman with a frighteningly simplistic idea of the world and how to live in it.
06/20/05
Moralmente complexo, está longe de representar uma experiência 'satisfatória' para o espectador, que sairá emocionalmente esgotado do cinema. Isto o engrandece ainda mais.
05/13/05
La película confirma a Mike Leigh como uno de los mejores representantes del cine británico, y a Imelda Staunton como una de sus mejores actrices.
05/07/05
Vera Drake succeeds because Leigh is not interested in sloganeering but in looking at the human and moral cost.
04/13/05
Top Critic Despite an occasionally hampering pace, Vera Drake is worth [it] because of its impeccably conceived and acted characters and the moral quagmire they present us with.
04/05/05
Imelda Staunton, a noted British stage actress, gives the best performance of any actress I have seen in the last few years.
03/29/05
There are few topics that generate more controversy than abortion, yet Mike Leigh's film seems wholly uninterested in courting debate.
03/27/05
Leigh takes time to show us the daily lives of all characters, giving them more reality than a Hollywood film would think necessary.
03/11/05
For those of us who remember when abortions were done with coat hangers and knitting needles ... Vera Drake recalls this era with matter-of-fact directness.
03/10/05
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December 14, 2004:
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