The Iron Lady (2011) (original) (raw)

Biopic starring Meryl Streep in an Oscar-winning performance as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher's life and political career are portrayed in flashback from the perspective of her later years as she struggles with Alzheimer's disease and grieves for her recently-deceased husband, Dennis (Jim Broadbent). The film traces her life from her childhood years in the family grocer's shop through to her graduation from Oxford, her early working life and her decision to enter politics. Her eleven-year stint in office is marked not only by her strictly conservative and ...(more)

Biopic starring Meryl Streep in an Oscar-winning performance as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher's life and political career are portrayed in flashback from the perspective of her later years as she struggles with Alzheimer's disease and grieves for her recently-deceased husband, Dennis (Jim Broadbent). The film traces her life from her childhood years in the family grocer's shop through to her graduation from Oxford, her early working life and her decision to enter politics. Her eleven-year stint in office is marked not only by her strictly conservative and hard-nosed leadership style, which earn her the nickname 'The Iron Lady', but also by spending cuts, strikes, the introduction of an unpopular poll tax and the Falklands War. (less)

Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Writer: Abi Morgan
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Roger Allam, Susan Brown, Nick Dunning
Producer: Damian Jones

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Review by Brian Orndorf, January 12, 2012

8 / 10

�The Iron Lady� is unlike the majority of bio-pics released these days, each playing repetitive notes of chemical abuse or artistic glory. This feature aims to worm inside the head of Margaret Thatcher, the controversial and enigmatic former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, keeping the film rooted in the present, finding the iconic woman in a state of mourning that�s frazzled her once sharp mind. Instead of ticking off a list of accomplishments, �The Iron Lady� smears a life across the screen, surveying triumphs and disasters, remaining as close to Thatcher�s personality as possible, favo ...read more...

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