Mike Leigh's award-winning and Oscar-nominated film takes a look at backstreet abortions, as carried out in 1950s England. The protaganist is a working-class housewife, who, inbetween caring for her family and being a maid, also helps out young women who find themselves in the family way. When one of these girls end up in hospital, the police come calling...
124 minutes, No persons under 13 Drama, Female interest, On the Art Circuit.
