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PLAYING PARTS.(Movie Review)
The title character in Mike Leigh's "Vera Drake" is a radiant middle-aged cleaning lady (Imelda Staunton) who races through her London working-class neighborhood singing to herself. The time is 1950, and the city still suffers from wartime austerities; the sun, as if refusing its warmth to the lower classes, never seems to penetrate the narrow alleys and pinched little rooms. But Vera brings the light. A short, pudding-faced woman, she clambers up stairways and drops in on her invalid mother and other elderly people, staying just long enough to pull a blanket tighter, say a few words of sympathy, and get the water boiling for tea; then she makes her way to the houses of ...
- `Vera Drake'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Newman, Bruce October 22, 2004 700+ words
Byline: Bruce Newman Vera Drake is a back alley abortionist at a...almost as much as the abortion. In "Vera Drake," the London of 1950 offers little...abortion-rights advocate. But "Vera Drake" is the latest entry in British...
- `Vera Drake'.
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) October 21, 2004 700+ words
Byline: Bruce Newman Vera Drake is a back alley abortionist at a...almost as much as the abortion. In "Vera Drake," the London of 1950 offers little...abortion-rights advocate. But "Vera Drake" is the latest entry in British...
- `Vera Drake' role took actress by surprise every day.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Hewitt, Chris October 29, 2004 700+ words
...Mike Leigh offered her a part in "Vera Drake": "He said, `It's set in the...about to get a lot better known for "Vera Drake," in which she gives one of the...family and friends had no idea "Vera Drake" dealt with abortion.) The result...
- `Vera Drake' role took actress by surprise every day.
- Newspaper article from: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) October 28, 2004 700+ words
...Mike Leigh offered her a part in "Vera Drake": "He said, `It's set in the...about to get a lot better known for "Vera Drake," in which she gives one of the...family and friends had no idea "Vera Drake" dealt with abortion.) The result...
- "Vera Drake" and the wake-up call of history.(Culture)(Movie Review)
- Magazine article from: Conscience Riddick, Ruth March 22, 2005 700+ words
...BEEN NO ideological furor over "Vera Drake" (2004)? Surely the movie is...feminists who might have championed "Vera Drake"? Where is the mainstream voice...Are these questions too hefty for "Vera Drake" to carry? Well, no. One of the...
- El estilo Vera Drake.(El secreto Vera Drake)(Reseña de película)
- Magazine article from: Proceso Betancourt, Javier May 15, 2005 700+ words
La seora Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton) practica abortos para "ayudar a jovencitas...permanencia de su imagen en el alma del espectador. En El secreto Vera Drake (Vera Drake, Gran Bretaa-Francia, 2004), la colosal Imelda Staunton transmite...
- HER NOT-SO-LITTLE SECRET `VERA DRAKE' BRINGS ABORTION DEBATE TO THE...
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) October 24, 2004 700+ words
...time, the title character of ``Vera Drake'' - the new film by Britain's...practice. Toward the end of ``Vera Drake,'' they'll find out. Leigh...occasionally seething. The timing of ``Vera Drake's'' release is fortuitous and...
- "Vera Drake" offers a study in fine acting.(Daily Break)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot February 18, 2005 700+ words
...VIRGINIAN-PILOT THERE IS A SCENE in "Vera Drake'' in which not one word of dialogue...acting,'' is evident. It's when Vera Drake, a pleasant cleaning woman and housewife...sympathetic. There is no wonder that "Vera Drake'' has not stirred much controversy...
