The Iron Lady
- Directors: Phyllida Lloyd
- Cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent
Drama/Biography. 105 minutes, PG-13. 2011
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Synopsis for The Iron Lady:Winner of 2 Academy Awards including Best Actress! Meryl Streep won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in this film. The Iron Lady revisits recent history through the eyes of the leader who shaped it -- charting the compelling rise and fall of trail-blazing politician Margaret Thatcher, the controversial former Prime Minister of the UK and the first woman ever elected as head of government in the West. Meryl Streep brings Margaret Thatcher to vivid life over a 40-year span, delivering a performance of great authenticity and sensitivity. Combining fact, fiction and poetic flights of imagination into a new breed of biopic, director Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!) creates a piercing portrait which reveals the many faces of Thatcher: the hard-nosed conservative; the woman who demolished the barriers of gender and class in a male-dominated world; the spirited wife and mother who longed to change her country for the better. Exposing the private life behind the headlines, The Iron Lady is a moving journey into the heart of an extraordinary, complex woman. Jim Broadbent co-stars.
“Sincerely directed by one woman (Phyllida Lloyd, who did “Mamma Mia!”) and smartly written by another (Abi Morgan), the film stars an unsurpassable Meryl Streep, whose ability to empathize with her characters has never been more gloriously impassioned than it is in this titanic performance.”—New York Post
“The sharp economy of Lloyd’s direction allows the incontestably great Streep to take impressionistic snatches of a life and build a woman in full. This is acting of the highest order.”—Peter Travers, Rolling Stone