A couple operates a shady maternity home in 1930s/1940s Nova Scotia. Based on a true story.A couple operates a shady maternity home in 1930s/1940s Nova Scotia. Based on a true story.A couple operates a shady maternity home in 1930s/1940s Nova Scotia. Based on a true story.
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- TriviaBased on the true story of The Ideal Maternity Home (IMH). The IMH began as a home, for local couples and a discreet place for unwed mothers, both groups could find maternity care, there. The homeboperated from 1928 until 1947 by William Peach Young and his wife Lila Gladys Young; William was a chiropractor and Lila was a midwife, who also billed herself as an obstetrician. The home, through several attempts by the government, was eventually forced to shut down.
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In 1938, in Nova Scotia, Canada, close to Halifax, the greed midwife Lila Young (Susan Clark) entitles herself as obstetrician and receives single mothers for a discrete childbirth and further adoption of the baby. Many years later, it was revealed that she charged the women for the birth and charge the candidates high amounts for the adoption. The babies not adopted were put together with the sick ones to die and buried in wooden boxes of butter in a clandestine cemetery. These events really happened in a location close to Halifax, in Canada, in a period along the Second World War. All the cast has an outstanding performance, but Susan Clark is perfect. The community has accepted her job, and the story does not show Lila only as a greed woman, but also as a deranged woman believing in the importance of her assignment and using the name of God to justify it. Although being excellent, this disturbing story is not indicated for all audiences. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): `Uma Cova Para os Anjos' (`A Grave For the Angels')
Title (Brazil): `Uma Cova Para os Anjos' (`A Grave For the Angels')
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