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Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Achievement in directing
Achievement in Costume Design
Nominated
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
- Imelda Staunton
Achievement in directing
- Mike Leigh
Best Original screenplay
Nominated
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
- Philip Davis
Best Original screenplay
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
- Heather Craney
Achievement in film editing
Achievement in Makeup
Nominated
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Imelda Staunton
Nominated
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
- Imelda Staunton
VideoHound Lists with Vera Drake
Vera Drake
Compassionate, complex drama with a stellar performance by Staunton in the title role. Set in the drab postwar London of 1950, Vera is a cozy, middle-aged married house cleaner who is relentlessly cheery and helpful to all those around her. This includes the poor young women who find themselves "in trouble." Vera, as it happens, is the local abortionist--something her family discovers only when the police descend on them after one of Vera's procedures goes wrong. Her subsequent trial highlights the hypocrisy of the proceedings (matched against Vera's bewildered decency) without becoming overbearing.
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125 minutes
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R - Restricted
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Wife. Mother. Criminal.
Color:
Color
Silent:
No
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DVD
Distributor:
Warner Home Video, Inc.
Staunton, Imelda 1956–
Newspaper article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television; 1/1/2004; 980+ words...Young Things, Icon Film Distribution, 2003. Sylvia Conlon, The Virgin of Liverpool, Senator International, 2003. Vera Drake, Momentum Pictures, 2004. Stage Appearances: Guys and Dolls, National Theatre, London, 1982 and 1996. The Beggar...
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Newspaper article from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers; 1/1/2001; Lovell, Glenn ; 1497+ words...Maxwell, Jr. ); Ann Savage (Vera ); Claudia Drake (Sue Harvey ); Edmund McDonald...he picks up a sullen vixen named Vera (Ann Savage parodying the trampy, consumptive Bette Davis). Vera knows Al isn't Haskell and uses...
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