The Iron Lady (film)
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| Directed by | Phyllida Lloyd |
| Produced by | Damian Jones |
| Written by | Abi Morgan |
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Meryl Streep Jim Broadbent Iain Glen Olivia Colman Anthony Head Richard E. Grant |
| Music by | Thomas Newman |
| Cinematography | Elliot Davis |
| Edited by | Justin Wright |
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20th Century Fox (U.K.) The Weinstein Company (U.S.A.) Icon Productions (Australia) |
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104 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom France |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £8.2 million ($10.6 million) |
| Box office | $115 million |
The Iron Lady is a 2011 British drama film based on the life and career of Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), a British stateswoman and politician who was 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, and, in her formative and early political years, by Alexandra Roach. Thatcher's husband, Denis Thatcher, is portrayed by Jim Broadbent, and by Harry Lloyd as the younger Denis. Thatcher's longest-serving cabinet member and eventual deputy, Geoffrey Howe, is portrayed by Anthony Head.
While the film was met with mixed reviews, Streep's performance was widely acclaimed, and considered to be one of the finest of her career. She received her 17th Oscar nomination for her portrayal and ultimately won the award, 29 years after her first Best Actress win. She also earned her third Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama award (her eighth Golden Globe Award win overall), and her second BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. The film also won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and the BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair.
The film begins in September 2008 (opening against the backdrop of news of the Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing) with an elderly Lady Thatcher buying milk (an allusion to her 'Thatcher milk snatcher' epithet of earlier years'), 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, while looking back on defining moments of her personal and professional life, on which she reminisces with her (now-dead) husband, Denis Thatcher, whose death she is unable to fully accept. She is shown as having difficulty distinguishing between the past and present. A theme throughout the film is the personal price that Thatcher has paid for power. Denis is portrayed as somewhat ambivalent about his wife's rise to power, her son Mark lives in South Africa and is shown as having little contact with his mother, and Thatcher's relationship with her daughter Carol is at times strained.
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