The Iron Lady DVD
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Film Details
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd
Produced in 2011
Main Language - English
Countries & Regions - British Film
Cast
Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman
Genres
Contemporary Drama • Contemporary Political Film • Contemporary British Film • Contemporary Blu-rays • Contemporary British Film • British Film Blu-rays
MovieMail's Review
After this remarkable film, it’s impossible to feel anything other than respect and admiration for one of the greatest women of the last half century (of course, I’m talking about Meryl Streep). Margaret Thatcher has been loathed and lionised in equal measure, but her on-screen portrayals have seldom risen above caricature. Streep’s flawless, Oscar-winning performance captures the zeal of the Iron Lady in her heyday, but also the humanity of her long twilight years into loneliness and dementia.
Director Phyllida Lloyd has received criticism for this latter aspect, in which a present-day Thatcher half-remembers, half-hallucinates her long journey from Grantham to No. 10, and struggles to come to terms with the loss of her husband. It’s an unashamedly personal portrayal which will frustrate viewers keen to settle political scores, but Abi Morgan’s script is less focussed on the rights and wrongs of 80s politics, and more on the woman who had the determination to push those policies forward, for better or for worse.
Milo Wakelin on 23rd March 2012
Author of 103 reviews
Film Description
Starring the Oscar-winning Meryl Streep in an amazing central performance, The Iron Lady tells the story of ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power, and is a surprising, intimate and poignant portrait of an extraordinary and complex woman.
The script was written by Abi Morgan (Shame, Birdsong), and depicts the elderly Dame Thatcher as a frail figure replaying key moments in her life, from her childhood years in the family grocer's shop through to her graduation from Oxford, her early working life and her decision to enter politics.
Her eleven-year stint in office is marked not only by her strictly conservative and hard-nosed leadership style, which earn her the nickname 'The Iron Lady', but also by spending cuts, strikes, the introduction of an unpopular poll tax and the Falklands War. Later, as her premiership is called into question, her previously loyal cabinet members - including Michael Heseltine (Richard E. Grant) and Geoffrey Howe (Anthony Head) - turn against her one by one, leading ultimately to her political downfall in 1990.
DVD Details
Certificate: 12
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Length: 104 mins
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 widescreen
Region: 2
Cat No: P927601000
Format: DVD Colour
DVD Extras
- Making-of
- Trailers.
Film Stills
Community Reviews
by Anon on 23rd March 2012
Personal feelings towards Margaret Thatcher tended to dictate many reviews of The Iron Lady - Thatcherites disliked seeing the former PM as suffering from dementia in ... Read on
