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The Iron Lady
In her twilight years, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher reflects on her life and career as she finally prepares to dispose of the belongings of her late husband, Denis while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.
30 January 1974, Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
16 August 1939, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
2 June 1960, Bromley, Kent, England, UK
17 November 1983, London, England, UK
20 June 1948, Ruislip, England, UK
1963, Essex, England, UK
1955, Brentwood, Essex, England, UK
1965, UK
20 September 1944, Woking, Surrey, England, UK
3 April 1946, London, England, UK
1958, Jersey, Channel Islands
1943, England, UK
6 February 1911, Tampico, Illinois, USA
29 November 1948, Aberdeen, Grampian, Scotland, UK
11 January 1953, Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
1953
4 February 1956, Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
26 October 1953, London, England, UK
19 May 1947, England, UK
10 February 1958, Cranleigh, Surrey, England, UK
1959, London, England, UK
June 30, 2013
A solid tribute to the conservative icon despite its meandering focus on her failing health.
June 14, 2013
...ignores the political and historical context of almost EVERYTHING that happens so that they can make the fabulously reductive statement that LIFE WAS TOUGH FOR GIRLS, BUT SHE WAS A TOUGH GIRL.
April 21, 2013
The narrative is not well structured, and Streep's performance suffers as a result.... The scenes with Broadbent are the best. They just aren't worth sitting through a history lesson that isn't taught well.
November 05, 2013
So, as thrilling as it is to watch Streep imitate Thatcher, The Iron Lady feels like a missed opportunity, not to blame and cast aspersions, but to weigh and assess.
January 13, 2012
Often "The Iron Lady" relies on montages to get to - and plow through - historic high points.
May 09, 2016
While it's the filmmaker's right to sympathise with this furiously divisive and much reviled figure in British politics, the uncritical approach severely undermines the film's conviction.
January 13, 2012
[Streep's] performance overpowers the movie it's in - a perfectly executed triple axel that renders everything else just featureless ice.
January 13, 2012
Yes, Streep is wondrous as usual, but her superpowers have been squandered here.
September 25, 2013
It's a pity Streep can't be picked up as Thatcher like a chess piece and placed down in a different, better film.
January 13, 2012
The Iron Lady is a performance in search of a film.
January 12, 2012
Streep's performance is so true and so uncannily accurate, so full and so complete in its understanding, that she is fascinating every second she is onscreen.
January 13, 2012
What keeps The Iron Lady afloat is the mesmerizing work of its star. As we already know, Streep goes beyond mimicry to fully inhabit her characters, from The French Lieutenant's Woman to Julia Child.
