Vera Drake

Vera Drake is a 2004 British drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, telling the story of a workingclass woman in London in 1950 who performs illegal abortions. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and it was nominated for three Academy Awards and won three BAFTAs.

She is a kindly person who is eager to help others. Unknown to her family, she also works secretly, providing young women abortions. She receives no money for providing this service because she believes that her help is an act of charity to women in trouble. However, her partner Lily Ruth Sheen, who also carries on a blackmarket trade in scarce postwar foodstuffs, charges two guineas two pounds and two shillings equivalent to 61 in 2016 for arranging the abortions, without Veras knowledge.The film also contains a subplot about an upperclass young woman, Susan Sally Hawkins, the daughter of one of Veras employers. Susan is raped by a suitor, becomes pregnant, and asks a friend to put her in contact with a doctor, through whom she can obtain an abortion. The doctor refers her to a psychiatrist, who prompts her to answer questions in a certain way, so that he can legally recommend an abortion on therapeutic psychiatric grounds that she has a family history of mental illness and that she may commit suicide if not allowed to terminate the pregnancy. The abortion costs her a hundred guineas. ........

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