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Vera Drake

  • Dir: Mike Leigh

  • UK, 2004, English, 125mins, DCP

  • Cast: Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Peter Wight, Alex Kelly

Loving wife, devoted mum, hardworking housekeeper – Vera Drake is seen as a saint by family members. But that heart of gold comes with a dark secret, for Vera’s selflessness extends to providing illicit abortions free of charge to the desperate and downtrodden. Leigh’s painterly postwar period piece sees Imelda Staunton give a heart-wrenching performance as a woman driven by a duty to help, questions of legality be damned. As an unspeakable taboo rips into domestic bliss, what emerges is a hard-hitting case for understanding – not just for Vera’s scared clients, but for her tightly held motives too.

Venice Film Festival: Golden Lion for Best Film and Volpi Cup for Best Actress

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The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.