Vera Drake , IQ Score 166/200
Vera Drake has an IQ Score of 166/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.
Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity
Score Breakdown
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Mike Leigh's 2004 1950s-London-set film anchored by Imelda Staunton (Cannes Best Actress) as a kindly working-class woman who performs illegal abortions in her free time. The structural commitment to letting the period-pre-Abortion-Act British working-class moral architecture be the actual subject, without prosecutorial or hagiographic framing, is rare cinema work.
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