Vera Drake (2004) Movie Script

1. Vera Drake - Scripts.com

  • Read, review and discuss the entire Vera Drake movie script by Mike Leigh on Scripts.com.

  • Read, review and discuss the entire Vera Drake movie script by Mike Leigh on Scripts.com

2. Vera Drake (2004) - Transcripts - Forever Dreaming

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4. Vera Drake - Nick-Davis.com

  • Mike Leigh's current film Vera Drake tells the story of a woman who performs abortions rather than one who undergoes one.

  • Mike Leigh's current film Vera Drake tells the story of a woman who performs abortions rather than one who undergoes one, although Vera ultimately devolves into almost as much of a shell as Anna Morgan does. A victim not of bodily trauma but of legal intolerance (and, perhaps, of extended self-delusion about her own behavior), Vera ends the film shuffling stiffly and nearly anonymously in a place she never imagined life could take her. Given the almost wholly opposed temperaments and praxes of Rhys and Leigh, however, Vera's internal annihilation at the end of Vera Drake registers very differently than does Anna's final plight, even as their stories topically recall each other. Leigh's style—indeed, his whole career—is founded on the rich detailing of place, performance, and implied psychology. Due both to his famous strategies for nurturing and rehearsing his actors and to the carefully modulated realism of sound, design, and lighting in his films, Leigh fosters a full-scale idiomatic immersion within each of his movies. His approach is grounded in empathy, specificity, and an almost voluptuous attention to human dimensionality, even as he is intrigued by some of the same social castes and milieus that attract much dryer attention from Rhys. Because we are provided so much layered information about Vera's mind and milieu at the outset, Leigh and his collaborators enable us to feel the emotional scope of the woman's predicament when her life ultimately collapses. We...

5. [PDF] Vera Drake (2004) and The Cider House Rules (1999)

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7. Vera Drake - Adam Cadre

  • She has to be arrested at a party. Not just a party — a party for her daughter's engagement. No, not dramatic enough! A party for her daughter's engagement and ...

  • Vera Drake Mike Leigh, 2004

8. 77th Oscar Nominated Scripts - SimplyScripts

  • 2004 Academy Award Nominated Films - The 77th Oscars · 2003 Academy Award ... Imelda Staunton - VERA DRAKE Annette Bening - BEING JULIA Catalina Sandino ...

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9. Review: Vera Drake (2004) - Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell

  • Jul 20, 2022 · Vera Drake. Rating. Director. Mike Leigh. Screenplay. Mike Leigh. Length. 2h 05m. Starring.

  • Vera Drake Rating Director Mike Leigh Screenplay Mike Leigh Length 2h 05m Starring Imelda Staunton, Richard Graham, Eddie Marsan, Anna Keaveney, Alex Kelly, Daniel Mays, Phil Davis, Lesley Manville…

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