Review of Vera Drake (2004) by Lucy B — 08 Dec 2007

Amazing, stunning, brilliant, masterful, spellbinding, engrossing, suspenseful, heart-breaking, and completely awesome in every way.

This review of Vera Drake (2004) was written by Lucy B on 08 Dec 2007.

Vera Drake has generally received very positive reviews.

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Vera Drake is so patient, assiduous and attentive to emotional accuracy that it betrays the utter sloth of most of what we see when we go to…

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By Sandy B (140) on 29 Dec 2013

Good flick when you're in a melancholy mood. Damn. She could be the poster child for Planned Parenthood…

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