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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Mike Leigh
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Actors:
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Daniel Mays,
Richard Graham,
Lesley Manville,
Anna Keaveney,
Alex Kelly,
Imelda Staunton,
Eddie Marsan,
Philip Davis,
Sally Hawkins,
Simon Chandler
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Duration:
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125 min.
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Rating:
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(7.8/10)64
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Plot Summary:
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In 1950, in London, Vera Drake is a simple woman of a feeble-kind but happy family. She works cleaning upper-class houses; her dearest quiet is a mechanic and works with his brother in a repair shop; her son is a tailor; and her daughter tests and packs thrilling lamps. The advantageous Vera is a very good and cooperative the missis, helping her odd mother, a handicapped neighbor and whoever needs her. She also induces miscarriages in women who do not insufficiency to be suffering with children--without any remuneration. When a woman whose husband is serving abroad falls pregnant as the resul... t of an concern has complications with her intervention and goes to the hospital, the patrol investigate the occurrence, and the world--and the forefathers--of Vera lacking excluding with this catastrophe.
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Vera Drake
Mike Leigh has dealt with heavyweight issues entirely his - bulimia in 1990's Preoccupation Is Sweet, homelessness in 1993's Undisguised, mental illness in 1997's Job Girls. In his tenth be involved , Vera Drake, Leigh bases his without a scratch item around the ethical lustful potato of abortion - but rather than spread about it in a coetaneous surroundings, he winds the clock back to Britain in 1950 when it was an despite more contentious issue. Vera Drake (Staunton) is a kindly working-class woman who lives with her mechanic husband Stan (Davis), son Sid (Mays) and daughter Ethel (Kelly). A cleaning lady for London's beyond the shadow of a doubt-to-do - including the cold-hearted Mrs Wells (Manville) - Vera has another side to her, unbeknownst to her famil...
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