Abortion
Film Wins Top Honor At Venice Film Festival
09-12-04
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(antiTainment) Vera Drake, a low budget
British film that examines the controversial subject of abortion has won
the top honor at the Venice Film Festival after being snubbed by Cannes
earlier this year.
Actress Imelda Staunton also won best actress
for the title role in the film. With the win at the Venice Film Festival,
pundits now predict that the Mike Leigh directed film is now in serious
consideration for Oscar glory.
The film is set in 1950s London where the
title character is a working-class mother that also performs illegal back-alley
abortions for poor women. After one of her patients nearly dies from the
procedure, Vera Drake then has to face the British legal system to answer
for her illegal actions.
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