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The World of Vera Drake
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Know what? Lovers Lane is an odd name for a major thoroughfare.
It hadn't struck me so until the other day. Residing in Dallas all my adult life-a considerable span by now, I must confess-I was completely at ease with informational tidbits such as, "They've lived on Lovers about 10 years, I think," or "Oh, you know where it is-intersection of Lovers and Greenville." Easy. Logical. Factual. I believe maybe that's it-factual. Lovers Lane-the provenance of the name is just as you suppose-...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Will Mike Leigh's new film change anyone's mind about the rights and wrongs of abortion? The director hopes that Vera Drake, about a Fifties backstreet abortionist, will spark debate. We sent four Evening Standard columnists and a midwife to see if this Oscar frontrunner changed their views.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; ... for the neighbours. Part of that all-round philanthropy is that she helps out girls with unwanted pregnancies. Frankly, it was news to me that you could procure a miscarriage by squirting a solution of hot soapy water with a bit of disinfectant into the vagina ...
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Will Mike Leigh's new film change anyone's mind about the rights and wrongs of abortion? The director hopes that Vera Drake, about a Fifties backstreet abortionist, will spark debate. We sent four Evening Standard columnists and a midwife to see if this Oscar frontrunner changed their views
Evening Standard - London
; ... for the neighbours. Part of that all-round philanthropy is that she helps out girls with unwanted pregnancies. Frankly, it was news to me that you could procure a miscarriage by squirting a solution of hot soapy water with a bit of disinfectant into the vagina ...
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Film: A bright light shining out of the dark ages Vera Drake Mike Leigh 125 MINS, 12A
The Independent on Sunday
; Topsy-Turvy, his 1999 film about Gilbert and Sullivan, revealed Mike Leigh's hitherto-unsuspected genius for the sympathetic reconstruction of the past. His new film confirms it, recreating a more recent era of British history, yet one which strangely feels more distant than Topsy- Turvy's
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 "Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)")
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Profile: New Mike Leigh film, "Vera Drake," examines the issue of abortion in England in the 1950s
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
; ... the Venice Film Festival. So far, the US distributor of "Vera Drake" has had no complaints from anti-abortion groups. For NPR News, I'm David D'Arcy in New York. (Soundbite of music) LUDDEN: This is NPR, National Public Radio. Content and Programming copyright ...
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The World of Vera Drake
Human Life Review
; Know what? Lovers Lane is an odd name for a major thoroughfare. It hadn't struck me so until the other day. Residing in Dallas all my adult life-a considerable span by now, I must confess-I was completely at ease with informational tidbits such as, "They've lived on Lovers about 10 years, I think,"
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The issue that dares not speak its name; 'Vera Drake' addresses abortion head on and lands in the middle of opposing camps.(eye on the Oscars best picture)
Variety
; Divorce? Easy. Premarital sex? You're joking. Homosexuality? Yawn. These topics--once highly controversial or even proscribed from being mentioned, let alone depicted, onscreen--are run-of-the-mill fare at today's multiplexes. Yet the subject of abortion, though legal in most Western countries, is
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THE BRUTAL TRUTH ABOUT VERA DRAKE A new film portrays a 1950s abortionist as kindly and altruistic. Those who saw the suffering such women caused beg to differ
Daily Mail
; AYOUNG pregnant woman lies huddled on a bed in a dank flat in North London, petrified at the prospect of what is about to happen. This is 1950s Britain and, like everyone else, she has heard all the horror stories about back-street abortions. She expects the abortionist to be a tough, contemptuous
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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THE BRUTAL TRUTH ABOUT VERA DRAKE; A new film portrays a 1950s abortionist as kindly and altruistic. Those who saw the suffering such women caused beg to differ.
The Daily Mail (London, England)
; Byline: NATALIE CLARKE AYOUNG pregnant woman lies huddled on a bed in a dank flat in North London, petrified at the prospect of what is about to happen. This is 1950s Britain and, like everyone else, she has heard all the horror stories about back-street abortions. She expects the abortionist to be
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Abortion's a backdrop to 'Vera's' poignant family portrait
Chicago Sun-Times
; Vera Drake (STAR)(STAR)(STAR)(STAR) Vera Imelda Staunton Stan Drake Philip Davis Lily Ruth Sheen Det. Insp. Webster Peter Wight George Richard Graham Reg (bachelor) Eddie Marsan Nellie Anna Keaveney Ethel Drake Alex Kelly Sid Drake Daniel Mays Mrs. Wells Lesley Manville Joyce Heather Craney Susan
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'Vera Drake' one woman's portrait of love
Daily Breeze
; Vera Drake is a melodious plum pudding of a woman who is always humming or singing to herself. She is happy because she is useful, and likes to be useful. She works as a cleaning woman in a rich family's house, where she burnishes the bronze as if it were her own, and then returns home to a crowded
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