Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Flip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

Telly addicts

Related: Film discussion forum.

Flip

Original poster

Vera Drake is on Ch4 tonight. Is it any good? Worth a watch???

22 replies

tiredemma · 17/02/2007 20:04

..or not.

Dp has gone out so I have complete control of the TV.

Is it worth cracking open my wine and sitting down to watch vera drake? or shall I stay on here??

Has anyone seen it???

OP posts:

FluffyMummy123 · 17/02/2007 20:04

Message withdrawn

SecondhandRose · 17/02/2007 20:06

If I remember rightly, think it was a bit depressing.

Original poster

tiredemma · 17/02/2007 20:08

I replied Cod- did you not see??

they are Ok- cousins girlfriend is a bit apprhensive about going out. Wont press charges though. The thigs are from a well known family of scrotums so cousin was concerned about idiots putting his windows through etc.

OP posts:

Original poster

tiredemma · 17/02/2007 20:08

thigs?? = THUGS

OP posts:

yoyo · 17/02/2007 20:09

I thought it was excellent when I watched it. Not an easy viewing but fantastically well observed. The attention to detail is brilliant and Imelda Staunton acts her part incredibly well. Despite the subject matter there is humour and warmth.

FluffyMummy123 · 17/02/2007 20:09

Message withdrawn

suejonez · 17/02/2007 20:09

excellent but sad

Original poster

tiredemma · 17/02/2007 20:09

is it graphic?

OP posts:

yoyo · 17/02/2007 20:10

Graphic - in what sense? You won't feel repulsed or have to hide behind a cushion but it is moving on so many levels. Watch out for the relationships she has with her family.

woodworm · 17/02/2007 20:10

What time is it on, I don't finish work til 9.

Cloudhopper · 17/02/2007 20:10

What's it about? How would you rate it on a scale of 1 - depressing, 10 = uplifting?

NurseyJo · 17/02/2007 20:11

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

yoyo · 17/02/2007 20:15

Not uplifting apart from in a cinematic sense.

suejonez · 17/02/2007 20:16

no not graphic just very tormented

Original poster

tiredemma · 17/02/2007 20:19

ta, will watch it.

Has another 'classic' film on after it.

'Rita, Sue & Bob too'

OP posts:

yoyo · 17/02/2007 20:23

Rita, Sue and Bob Too... watched that as a teen and oh how we laughed. Watched it a while ago and didn't!

Original poster

tiredemma · 17/02/2007 20:23

its rough isnt it?

OP posts:

yoyo · 17/02/2007 20:32

Am trying to remember who starred in it (R,S and B) and what they went on to do. Anyone remember?

MiaWallace · 18/02/2007 09:30

Sue played Terry's wife in Emmerdale and was also in Goodnight Sweetheart

Bob was in Shirley Valentine and some kid's programme about ghosts (IIRC)

No idea about Rita

suejonez · 18/02/2007 10:39

Did you watch it tiredemma?

Original poster

tiredemma · 18/02/2007 10:40

rita

sue

bob too

lots of tv/film done between them.

Back to Vera Drake. Thought it was fantastic, glad I watched it. Bloody dark and miserable but thought provoking.

Attention to detail of 1950's life was fantastic.

OP posts:

LadyTophamHatt · 18/02/2007 10:44

Was it based on a real person/true story?

I watched it, thought it was good but thought it was an odd subject to make a film about if it wasn't a true story. I know it happened like that in the "olden days" but.......

Flip