Synopsis
Elderly and a virtual prisoner in her own home due to her concerned staff and daughter Carol, Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first woman prime minister, looks back on her life as she clears out her late husband Denis’s clothes for the Oxfam shop.
Denis is seen as being her rock as she first enters parliament and then runs for the leadership of the Conservative Party, culminating in her eventual premiership. Now his ghost joins her to comment on her successes and failures, sometimes to her annoyance, generally to her comfort until ultimately, as the clothes are sent to the charity shop, Denis departs from Margret’s life forever.
Reviews
Gloriously staged, magnificently acted, brilliantly directed.
– New York Times, John Smith
Streep is simply brilliant as Thatcher in every way: her voice, her posture, her movements and facial expressions, her frightening and sudden imperiousness.
– London Evening Standard, David Sexton
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, Kyle Smith
Awards
25 wins (including 2 Academy Awards) and 47 nominations
Meryl Streep won every award going including the Best Actress Oscar
Credits
- Meryl Streep
- Margaret Thatcher
- Jim Broadbent
- Denis Thatcher
- Harry Lloyd
- Young Denis Thatcher
- Alexandra Roach
- Young Margaret Thatcher
- Olivia Colman
- Carol Thatcher
- Susan Brown
- June
- Alice da Cunha
- Cleaner
- Phoebe Waller-Bridge
- Susie
- Iain Glen
- Alfred Roberts
- Victoria Bewick
- Muriel Roberts
- Emma Dewhurst
- Beatrice Roberts
- Sylvestra Le Touzel
- Hostess 1949
- Michael Culkin
- Host 1949
- Stephanie Jacob
- Female Guest 1949
- Robert Portal
- Grey Suited Guest 1949
- Amanda Root
- Amanda
- Clifford Rose
- James
- Michael Cochrane
- William
- Jeremy Clyde
- James
- Michael Simkins
- Peter
- Eloise Webb
- Young Carol
- Alexander Beardsley
- Young Mark
- Nicholas Farrell
- Airey Neave
- John Sessions
- Edward Heath
- Anthony Head
- Geoffrey Howe
- Richard Syms
- House of Commons Speaker
- David Westhead
- Shadow Minister
- Julian Wadham
- Francis Pym
- Richard E. Grant
- Michael Heseltine
- Angus Wright
- John Nott
- Roger Allam
- Gordon Reece
- Michael Pennington
- Michael Foot
- John Harding
- Cabinet Minister
- Simon Chandler
- Cabinet Minister
- Stephen Boxer
- Cabinet Minister
- Jasper Jacob
- Cabinet Minister
- Rupert Vansittart
- Cabinet Minister
- Robin Kermode
- Cabinet Minister
- Andrew Havill
- Cabinet Minister
- Michael Elwyn
- Cabinet Minister
- Peter Pacey
- Cabinet Minister
- Jeremy Child
- Cabinet Minister
- James Smith
- Cabinet Minister
- Hugh Ross
- Cabinet Minister
- Chris Campbell
- Cabinet Minister
- Paul Bentley
- Cabinet Minister
- Martin Wimbush
- Cabinet Minister
- Simon Slater
- Cabinet Minister
- David Cann
- TV Interviewer
- Christopher Luscombe
- Voice Coach
- Angela Curran
- Crawfie
- Michael Maloney
- Doctor
- Pip Torrens
- Ian Gilmour
- Nick Dunning
- Jim Prior
- David Rintoul
- Admiral Fieldhouse
- Nicholas Jones
- Admiral Leach
- Richard Goulding
- Naval Attaché
- Matthew Marsh
- Alexander Haig
- Willie Jonah
- Kenneth Kaunda
- Phyllida Lloyd
- Director
- Abi Morgan
- Writer
- Elliot Davies
- Cinematography
Gloriously staged, magnificently acted, brilliantly directed.
– John Smith, New York Times
