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* IntrafamilialClassConflict: Vera's sister-in-law, Joyce, is much more [[SocialClimber aspirational]] than the rest of her husband's very modest working-class family, which creates a strained undercurrent in their relationship.
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* IHaveThisFriend: Susan tries to use this trope when she wants to confide in an older friend about getting pregnant. Her older friend sees right through Susan's ruse.
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* WarIsHell: We never see it ourselves, but just from the little we hear of war from Stanley, Reg, and Sid, it's obvious that it's taken its toll, particularly on Sid.
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* WarIsHell: We never see it ourselves, but just from the little we hear of war from Stanley, Reg, and Sid, it's obvious that it's taken its toll, particularly on Sid.Sid.
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: The abortion method Vera uses in the film is shown as largely safe, with just one of her patients suffering a complication. Yet in reality it was invariably fatal. Former nurse Jennifer Worth, of ''Series/CallTheMidwife'' fame, criticized it for this.
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: The method of abortion method which Vera uses in the film is shown as largely safe, with just one of her patients suffering a complication. Yet in reality it was actually invariably fatal. Former nurse lethal-there's no way she'd have used this for twenty years before having a fatality. It's also extremely painful-they would not be getting up after that like nothing happened. Jennifer Worth, Worth of ''Series/CallTheMidwife'' fame, fame [[http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jan/06/health.healthandwellbeing harshly criticized it for this.the portrayal]].
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''Vera Drake'' is a 2004 British drama film written and directed by Creator/MikeLeigh, starring Creator/ImeldaStaunton and Creator/RichardGraham. It tells the story of a working-class woman in England who performs secret abortions in the 1950s, when abortion was still illegal.
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''Vera Drake'' is a 2004 British drama film written and directed by Creator/MikeLeigh, starring Creator/ImeldaStaunton and Creator/RichardGraham.Richard Graham. It tells the story of a working-class woman in England who performs secret abortions in the 1950s, when abortion was still illegal.
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* AntiHero: Vera's partner Lily, through whom she gets most of her patients. Vera eventually learns that Lily is charging the women for the abortions and neither telling Vera nor offering her any of the money. (Not that Vera would accept it anyway, but still.)
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* AntiHero: Vera's partner Lily, through whom she gets most of her patients. Vera eventually learns that Lily is charging the women for the abortions and neither telling Vera nor offering her any of the money. (Not money (not that Vera would accept it anyway, but still.)still).
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: The abortion method Vera uses in the film is shown as largely safe, with just one of her patients suffering a complication. Yet in reality it was invariably fatal. Former nurse Jennifer Worth, of ''Series/CallTheMidwife'' fame, criticized it for this.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: The abortion method Vera uses in the film is shown as largely safe, with just one of her patients suffering a complication. Yet in reality it was invariably fatal. Former nurse Jennifer Worth, of ''Series/CallTheMidwife'' fame, criticized it for this.
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That claim by Worth was grossly exaggerated and based on the fact that she only got to see the cases where something went horribly wrong - see http://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/jan/15/health.guardianletters
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: The method of abortion which Vera uses was actually invariably lethal-there's no way she'd have used this for twenty years before having a fatality. It's also extremely painful-they would not be getting up after that like nothing happened. Jennifer Worth of ''Series/CallTheMidwife'' fame [[http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jan/06/health.healthandwellbeing harshly criticized the portrayal]].
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: The method which Vera uses was actually invariably lethal-there's no way she'd have used this for twenty years before having a fatality. It's also extremely painful-they would not be getting up after that like nothing happened. Jennifer Worth of ''Series/CallTheMidwife'' fame [[http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jan/06/health.healthandwellbeing harshly criticized the portrayal]].
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: The method of abortion which Vera uses was actually invariably lethal-there's no way she'd have used this for twenty years before having a fatality. It's also extremely painful-they would not be getting up after that like nothing happened. Jennifer Worth of ''Series/CallTheMidwife'' fame [[http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jan/06/health.healthandwellbeing harshly criticized the portrayal]].
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: The method which Vera uses was actually invariably lethal-there's no way she'd have used this for twenty years before having a fatality. It's also extremely painful-they would not be getting up after that like nothing happened. Jennifer Worth of ''Series/CallTheMidwife'' fame [[http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jan/06/health.healthandwellbeing harshly criticized the portrayal]].
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* InsanityDefense: Susan's doctor coaches her to lie to her psychiatrist and say she has a family history of mental illness and will kill herself if she must take the pregnancy to term. Justified since this is the only way she can obtain an abortion legally, and even then, the price is steep.
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* InsanityDefense: Susan's doctor coaches her to lie to her psychiatrist and say she has a family history of mental illness and will kill herself if she must take the pregnancy to term. Justified [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since this is the only way she can obtain an abortion legally, and even then, the price is steep.
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* TheStoic: Sid, strongly hinted to be as the result of being a ShellShockedVeteran.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The subplot involving Susan, the girl from a rich family who becomes pregnant through date-rape and gets a borderline-legal abortion, while poor women have to go to Vera.
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* WarIsHell: We never see it ourselves, but just from the little we hear of war from Stanley, Reg, and Sid, it's obvious that it's taken its toll, particularly on Sid.
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* DescriptionCut: A variation. One scene ends with one of Vera's patients saying that "men don't understand anything." Cut to Susan getting a legal abortion by lying to her psychiatrist, after she was coached on what to say by her male physician.
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* AntiHero: Vera's partner Lily, through whom she gets most of her patients. Vera eventually learns that Lily is charging the women for the abortions, and neither telling Vera nor offering any of the money. (Not that Vera would accept it anyway, but still.)
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AntiHero: Vera's partner Lily, through whom she gets most of her patients. Vera eventually learns that Lily is charging the women for the abortions, and neither telling Vera nor offering any of the money. (Not that Vera would accept it anyway, but still.)
* BackAlleyDoctor: The entire premise. Vera works as this in order to provide what she sees as necessary abortions.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Vera goes to prison, but at only two and a half years, it's clear that she's getting off easy]].
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: When the truth comes out about Vera, Stanley quietly accuses Sid of seeing the matter this way.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: The film is sympathetic toward Vera but also presents multiple perspectives on the issue, both with realistic patients (a careless floozy, an exhausted housewife who couldn't afford to raise another child, a [[RapeAsDrama victim of date rape]]) and with her family when they find out the truth (her husband vows to stay by her side for better or worse, her son believes it's "killing innocent babies," and her daughter's fiancé thinks it's an [[MercyKill act of mercy]] [[ShootTheDog compared to bringing a child who can't be properly cared for into the world.]])
* GreyAndGrayMorality: No heroes or villains here, just people on different sides of a very complex issue.
* InsanityDefense: Susan's doctor coaches her to lie to her psychiatrist and say she has a family history of mental illness and will kill herself if she must take the pregnancy to term. Justified since this is the only way she can obtain an abortion legally, and even then, the price is steep.
* MercyKill / ShootTheDog: How Reg views the abortions, in stark contrast to Sid.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Lily, Vera's partner, has a dim view of their black patient (whom she calls a "darkie") and immigrants in general.
* RapeAsDrama: How Susan ends up getting pregnant.
* TheStoic: Sid, strongly hinted to be the result of ShellShockedVeteran.
* WarIsHell: We never see it ourselves, but just from the little we hear of war from Stanley, Reg, and Sid, it's obvious that it's taken its toll, particularly on Sid.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AntiHero: Vera's partner Lily, through whom she gets most of her patients. Vera eventually learns that Lily is charging the women for the abortions, and neither telling Vera nor offering any of the money. (Not that Vera would accept it anyway, but still.)
* BackAlleyDoctor: The entire premise. Vera works as this in order to provide what she sees as necessary abortions.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Vera goes to prison, but at only two and a half years, it's clear that she's getting off easy]].
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: When the truth comes out about Vera, Stanley quietly accuses Sid of seeing the matter this way.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: The film is sympathetic toward Vera but also presents multiple perspectives on the issue, both with realistic patients (a careless floozy, an exhausted housewife who couldn't afford to raise another child, a [[RapeAsDrama victim of date rape]]) and with her family when they find out the truth (her husband vows to stay by her side for better or worse, her son believes it's "killing innocent babies," and her daughter's fiancé thinks it's an [[MercyKill act of mercy]] [[ShootTheDog compared to bringing a child who can't be properly cared for into the world.]])
* GreyAndGrayMorality: No heroes or villains here, just people on different sides of a very complex issue.
* InsanityDefense: Susan's doctor coaches her to lie to her psychiatrist and say she has a family history of mental illness and will kill herself if she must take the pregnancy to term. Justified since this is the only way she can obtain an abortion legally, and even then, the price is steep.
* MercyKill / ShootTheDog: How Reg views the abortions, in stark contrast to Sid.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Lily, Vera's partner, has a dim view of their black patient (whom she calls a "darkie") and immigrants in general.
* RapeAsDrama: How Susan ends up getting pregnant.
* TheStoic: Sid, strongly hinted to be the result of ShellShockedVeteran.
* WarIsHell: We never see it ourselves, but just from the little we hear of war from Stanley, Reg, and Sid, it's obvious that it's taken its toll, particularly on Sid.
