Directed by: Phyllida
Lloyd
Starring: Meryl
Streep, Jim Broadbent and Richard E. Grant
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
IMBD 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
premiereship. 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.
My rating: 6.5/10
My Comment: I vaguely learnt about Margaret
Thatcher in High School. I love history movies about powerful women. This movie
is inspiring, and made me understand her better. Make-up and costumes were
fantastic and convincing. Meryl Streep actually did look like Margaret
Thatcher. The only criticism that I have for this movie was that there were too
many flashbacks which kind of got me confused at some points.
- love H
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