Vera Drake is a selfless woman who is completely devoted to, and loved by, her working class family. She spends her days doting on them and caring for her sick neighbor and elderly mother. However, she also secretly visits women and helps them induce miscarriages for unwanted pregnancies. While the practice itself was illegal in 1950s England, Vera sees herself as simply helping women in need, and always does so with a smile and kind words of encouragement. When the authoriti... (Full plot summary below)
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Vera Drake is a selfless woman who is completely devoted to, and loved by, her working class family. She spends her days doting on them and caring for her sick neighbor and elderly mother. However, she also secretly visits women and helps them induce miscarriages for unwanted pregnancies. While the practice itself was illegal in 1950s England, Vera sees herself as simply helping women in need, and always does so with a smile and kind words of encouragement. When the authorities finally find her out, Vera's world and family life rapidly unravel.
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| USA TodayMike ClarkThis is the kind of people-driven story that the movies used to give us - before special effects took over. |
| VarietyDavid RooneyMike Leigh is at the peak of his powers with Vera Drake, a compassionate, morally complex drama that stands easily alongside his best work, "Secrets & Lies" and "Topsy-Turvy." |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonFew movies have evoked the happiness of a good, strong family as genuinely as this one. And this affecting atmosphere makes the eventual outcome resonate with great power. |
| Seattle TimesMary BrennanVera is the heart of the film, and Staunton gives an exquisite performance. |
| WBAI Web RadioPrairie MillerAuthentic and complex grid of a system of social values and fears that has most everyone stuck in its tragic labyrinth. |
| NetflixJames RocchiIn postwar Britain, Vera Drake helps the needy and pays for it dearly in Mike Leigh's underplayed and overwhelming drama. |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. MeansLeigh's gift in Vera Drake is that he doesn't help us decide what to think of Vera, but he does help us understand her. |
| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouMatt BaileyThere are few topics that generate more controversy than abortion, yet Mike Leigh's film seems wholly uninterested in courting debate. |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaMoralmente complexo, está longe de representar uma experiência 'satisfatória' para o espectador, que sairá emocionalmente esgotado do cinema. Isto o engrandece ainda mais. |
| Film Comment MagazineAmy TaubinThe 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. |
