Friday Flicks with Riverside Film Festival

Do you miss the Valley Film Society? Join us for a series of indepent, foreign, and art house films at the library! In collaboration with Riverside Film Festival, we'll show a movie on selected Fridays and leave plenty of time afterward for discussion.

On 9/6, we'll be showing Vera Drake (2004) - 2hr 04min (NR): 

VERA DRAKE is a devoted, working-class mother in 1950s London who is both beloved and admired by everyone who surrounds her. Yet she bares a secret that few people know about, she induces miscarriages for women who do not wish to bare children. To her, it is a mission of kindness, of charity, of love. But when a miscarriage goes horribly wrong, Vera has to face the authorities, sending her life into tragedy. From acclaimed director Mike Leigh, VERA DRAKE stars Imelda Staunton in a career defining performance for which Newsday raved, "the kind of role that elevates an actress into a lofty realm where those who never knew her suddenly knew it all along."