Vera Drake 2004 123movies

Watch: Vera Drake 2004 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	7.7/10 Votes: 25,805
	92% | RottenTomatoes
	83/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 291 Popularity: 10.823 | TMDB

Reviews:

The English are best.
Thank heavens for Mike Leigh, because you sure wouldn’t see an American film with a serial abortionist as the heroine.

The movie is set in 1950, and Vera Drake has been “helping out” young pregnant women for so long she’s not even sure when she started. And she really does see herself as helping out; she won’t use the A word. Her clients are not all young, mind you. There is the poor woman, for example, with six or seven children already and a sick husband, who can’t bear the thought of another. Nor are they all helpless or innocent – one has had at least one before – or even poor, although most certainly are. The cost is two guineas, but Vera takes no pay – the money going to her “abortion pimp”, who also deals in rationed consumer goods for a profit.

Vera truly has a heart of gold. I really can’t think of a movie character – leaving aside that Jesus fellow – more selfless or altruistic. What is remarkable is that, in part because of Leigh’s naturalistic script and in part because of Imelda Staunton’s extraordinary performance – you never for a moment doubt the truth of that claim. When Vera is arrested after one of her syringe and soapy water abortions finally goes wrong, almost killing a young woman, she is not thinking of herself but of the effect on her family.

And this is when this already beautiful film gets even more heartbreakingly sublime. Her husband, his brother, her daughter, even the daughter’s hapless fiancé stand by her without question. Only her son is appalled, thinking that she has done something not only wrong but “dirty”; but his father shows him that he must forgive his mother, as she would forgive him. And so he does. Only the brother-in-law’s wife, a woman with airs, condemns Vera. Tellingly, she is also a materialist.

For this movie is mostly about the virtue of the working class, another reason why it is impossible to conceive of it in an American version. Is what Vera did wrong? I don’t think so, but even if you do, there is no denying that only the poor paid the price of unwanted pregnancy when abortion was a crime. The rich, as we see in the case of desperate young woman who is date raped, get a referral over tea at a tony restaurant, see a Harley Street doctor, get a dispensation from a winking psychiatrist, and have the deed done in a posh sanatorium.

In addition to Staunton, the whole cast is wonderful. Special kudos go to Philip Davis as Stan, the husband. This is the best picture of 2004.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 5 min (125 min)
Budget 11000000
Revenue 13300000
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama
Director Mike Leigh
Writer Mike Leigh
Actors Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney
Country United Kingdom, France
Awards Nominated for 3 Oscars. 41 wins & 45 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Aaton XTR Prod, Cooke S4 Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, London, UK (prints), VTR, London, UK (digital intermediate)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 16 mm (Kodak Vision2 500T 7218)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 16 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (blow-up)