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The Iron Lady
The Iron Lady

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Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent
Jan 13, 2012
PG-13, 1 hr. 44 min.

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Movie Info

Cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Harry Lloyd, Anthony Head, Alexandra Roach, Roger Allam, Richard E. Grant, Susan Brown, Olivia Colman, Nicholas Farrell
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Rated: PG-13
Running Time: 1 hr. 44 min.
Genre: Art House & International, Drama
Theater Release: Jan 13, 2012
DVD Release: Apr 10, 2012
Synopsis: The Iron Lady is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world. -- (C) Weinstein

Critic Reviews

  • Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
    Streep's performance of a dismissive line such as "People don't think anymore, they feel," will have even the most dyed-in-the-wool liberal questioning core beliefs.
  • Tom Long, Detroit News
    Yes, Streep is wondrous as usual, but her superpowers have been squandered here.
  • , Globe and Mail
    The Iron Lady is a performance in search of a film.
  • Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
    Often "The Iron Lady" relies on montages to get to - and plow through - historic high points.
  • Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
    [Streep's] performance overpowers the movie it's in - a perfectly executed triple axel that renders everything else just featureless ice.
  • Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
    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.
  • J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
    Streep, no fan of Thatcher, nicely undercuts the poignancy of her current condition with flashbacks that reveal her brittle arrogance in office.
  • Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
    Everything Streep does here is a seismic act of theater. If she so much as tilts her head, the earth tilts with it. She doesn't simply overwhelm this thin historic biography - and the other actors around her - she detonates it.
  • Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
    The portrait that Streep delivers in Phyllida Lloyd's impressionistic biopic is astonishing.
  • Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
    A stylized biography of one of the most powerful women in politics, portrayed by the greatest actress of our time, that asks more questions than it answers.
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