Vera Drake - Region 1 DVD

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Directed by :

Mike Leigh

Starring :

Imelda Staunton

Jim Broadbent

Heather Craney

Richard Graham

Eddie Marsan

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Description: W W The brilliant writer-director Mike Leigh (Topsy-Turvy, Secrets and Lies, Naked) has crafted an utterly compelling movie about one of the most controversial of topics. An irrepressibly hopeful housecleaner in 1950s London named Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton, Antonia and Jane, Shakespeare in Love) mothers everyone around her, from her own family to helpless shut-ins and lonely men living in tiny, isolated apartments. None of these people know that Vera also helps young women get rid of unwanted pregnancies, until the police appear and tear her world apart. Vera Drake isn't just an inspired character portrait; through simple an ... (more)

Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Release date: 29 March 2005
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780780650459 UPC: 794043784125

Tags: Drama (1), Abortion (1), England (1), 1950s (1)

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