The Iron Lady (2012)

Release Date: January 13th, 2012

Director: Phyllida Lloyd

Writers: Abi Morgan (screenplay)

Actors: Alexandra Roach, Anthony Head, Harry Lloyd, Iain Glen, Jim Broadbent, Julian Wadham, Meryl Streep, Nicholas Farrell, Nick Dunning, Olivia Colman, Richard E. Grant, Roger Allam, Ronald Reagan, Susan Brown, Teresa Mahoney

Genre: Biography, Drama

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Official site: www.theironladymovie.co.uk

Studio: The Weinstein Company

A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,
with a focus on the price she paid for power.
London, 2008. In her well-appointed apartment, the elderly former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher prepares breakfast for her husband Denis, as she has every morning of their married life. It’s not until Margaret’s personal aide bustles in that we see that Margaret sits at the table alone. Denis is alive only in her imagination.
Once described in life as “always present, never there”, Denis is still present for Margaret. Is he a loving memory made flesh? A manifestation of her grief? Or perhaps her conscience, taking her to task?
Locked in the infuriating inaction of retirement and battling ill health, Margaret is ambushed by memories. Fragments of her private life and of her premiership crowd in to her mind and she relives them in vivid detail. As she struggles to maintain her equilibrium, Denis teases and needles her. The struggle, the triumphs, the betrayals – in the end, what did she achieve? When all is said and done, was it worth it?
THE IRON LADY is the story of a woman who came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world. It is a film about power and the price that is paid for power, a story that is both unique and universal.