Iron Lady (The)
- Director: Phyllida Lloyd
- Writer: Abi Morgan
- Producer: Francois Ivernel; Damian Jones
CGiii Comment
A major disappointment.
Yes, Ms Streep is amazing...and that is all that can be said for this idle and haphazard account of the woman who bred contempt faster than a virus in a Petri-dish.
Lloyd has [negligently] ignored the most important facts...skimming over events that - to thousands of people - changed lives - not for the better.
This kind of sentimentality should be criminalised - for indeed, Mrs Thatcher was a criminal. The misery that this woman distributed was unbridled.
Shame on you, Ms Lloyd.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Elderly and a virtual prisoner in her own home due to her concerned staff and daughter Carol, Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first woman prime minister, looks back on her life as she clears out her late husband Denis's clothes for the Oxfam shop. Denis is seen as being her rock as she first enters parliament and then runs for the leadership of the Conservative Party, culminating in her eventual premiership. Now his ghost joins her to comment on her successes and failures, sometimes to her annoyance, generally to her comfort until ultimately, as the clothes are sent to the charity shop, Denis departs from Margaret's life forever.
Cast & Characters
Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher;
Jim Broadbent as Denis Thatcher;
Susan Brown as June;
Alice da Cunha as Cleaner;
Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Susie;
Iain Glen as Alfred Roberts;
Alexandra Roach as Young Margaret Thatcher;
Victoria Bewick as Muriel Roberts;
Emma Dewhurst as Beatrice Roberts;
Olivia Colman as Carol Thatcher