Overview
Two-time Oscar-winner Meryl Streep steps into the role of English prime minister Margaret Thatcher in this biopic from director Phyllida Lloyd (MAMMA MIA!), and screenwriter Abi Morgan (TSUNAMI: THE AFTERMATH, BRICK LANE). Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant, and Anthony Head co-star.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Phyllida Lloyd - Director
Meryl Streep
Jim Broadbent
Alexandra Roach
Harry Lloyd
Anthony Head
John Sessions
Angus Wright
Eloise Webb
Julian Wadham
Michael Maloney
Details
- Format: DVD
- Run Time: 105
- UPC: 013132471396
- Genre: DRAMA
- Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
- Release Date: April 2012
Movie Reviews
Reviews:
"[T]he thoughtful depths and fine-grained details in Meryl Streep’s latest feat of superhuman portraiture are ample reward." - 11/23/2011 Hollywood Reporter
"Designer Marese Langan does a remarkable job of taking away and putting years on Streep as she moves from Thatcher's late 30s to her 80s....It is Streep's uncanny ability to disappear inside her characters that is striking here." - 12/30/2011 Los Angeles Times
"[T]he film features a tour-de-force performance by Meryl Streep. Hers is a flawless portrayal of the conservative British prime minister..." - 12/30/2011 USA Today
"Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher is the main reason to see THE IRON LADY....Close your eyes -- or even keep them open -- and the Iron Lady's time has come again." - 12/30/2011 Wall Street Journal
"[T]he story's primarily a setting for Streep's jaw-droppingly brilliant performance....She creates a subtle, stress-riven portrait of a woman reckoning up an extraordinary life as unflinchingly as she lived it." - 02/01/2012 Total Film
"Streep is her own irresistible show as she assumes, with the precision that is her trademark, the character of the U.K.'s staunchly conservative prime minister in the 1980s." -- Grade: B - 01/06/2012 Entertainment Weekly
"[With] Meryl Streep, once again going far beyond mimicry into total identification with her role, taking Thatcher from the confident stride of her early triumphs to the stiff-legged shuffle of old age." - 02/01/2012 Sight and Sound
"Streep's performance, which spans some 40 years in the former prime minister's life, meticulously captures Thatcher's strident public persona." - 01/01/2012 Film Comment