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Release Date: 2011

Cast: Jim Broadbent, Julian Wadham, Richard Dixon, Nick Dunning, Roger Allam, David Westhead, Susan Brown, Alexandra Roach, Richard E. Grant, Michael Pennington, Olivia Colman, Meryl Streep ...MORE

Cast: Jim Broadbent, Julian Wadham, Richard Dixon, Nick Dunning, Roger Allam, David Westhead, Susan Brown, Alexandra Roach, Richard E. Grant, Michael Pennington, Olivia Colman, Meryl Streep, Harry Lloyd, Anthony Stewart Head ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Biographical film, Biography

The Iron Lady is a 2011 British biographical film based on the life of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century. The film was directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Thatcher is portrayed primarily by Meryl Streep, but also, in her formative and early political years, by Alexandra Roach. Thatcher's husband, Denis Thatcher, is portrayed by Jim Broadbent, and Thatcher's longest-serving cabinet member and eventual deputy, Geoffrey Howe, is portrayed by Anthony Head. The film met with mixed reviews, although Meryl Streep's performance was widely... MORE

The Iron Lady is a 2011 British biographical film based on the life of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century. The film was directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Thatcher is portrayed primarily by Meryl Streep, but also, in her formative and early political years, by Alexandra Roach. Thatcher's husband, Denis Thatcher, is portrayed by Jim Broadbent, and Thatcher's longest-serving cabinet member and eventual deputy, Geoffrey Howe, is portrayed by Anthony Head. The film met with mixed reviews, although Meryl Streep's performance was widely acclaimed, earning Best Actress awards at the Golden Globes, the BAFTAs and the Academy Awards. The film begins circa 2008 (opening against the backdrop of news of the Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing) with an elderly Lady Thatcher buying milk unrecognized by other customers and walking back from the shop alone. Over the course of three days we see her struggle with dementia and with the lack of power that comes with old age, whilst looking back on defining moments of her personal and professional life, on which she reminisces with her (dead) husband, Denis. She is shown as having difficulty LESS