Vera Drake (2004) on Netflix
In 1950 London, Vera Drake cleans houses and cares for her family. Unknown to them, she also helps women who do not want to be pregnant, asking nothing for it.
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- Rotten Tomatoes92%
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Plot summary
Vera Drake lives in 1950 London with her husband Stan, a car mechanic, their son Sid, who tailors men's suits, and their daughter Ethel, who works in a lightbulb factory. The family has little money, but they look after one another, and Vera also visits her elderly mother and a sick neighbor. She earns her living cleaning houses, where she is known for small kindnesses to the people she meets. Her family does not know that she also performs abortions for women who want to end a pregnancy, asking nothing for her help because she believes she is doing good. Her partner Lily, who trades in scarce postwar food, arranges those appointments and takes two guineas from the women without telling Vera.
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SPOILER
Only Imelda Staunton knew in advance that the subject of the film was abortion, and none of the cast playing the family knew Vera was to be arrested until the actors playing the police knocked on the door of the rehearsal house; their genuine shock and confusion became the raw material for the scene.
