The Iron Lady (2011) - Meryl Streep's global triumph as Lady Thatcher

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2 Time Film Excess Nominee:

Best Actress: Meryl Streep (lost to Bérénice Bejo for The Artist)
Best Make-up and Hair: Mark Coulier (lost to J. Edgar)

Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, conjoined with London's buildings of government on the poster for Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady

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Margaret Thatcher, a merchant's daughter, stand behind the counter during World War II and grows up to develop great political flair and ambitions, which are fulfilled when she becomes the first female prime minister of Great Britain. Her life gets rolled out in Iron Lady from the vantage point of Thatcher the overprotected senior citizen and widow, who suffers from burgeoning dementia.

Meryl Streep (The Hours (2002)) is - once again - outstanding in this complete change of character here as England's Iron Lady, which won her her third Oscar. Jim Broadbent (Pattington (2014)) is amusing as her husband, and the two of them make this original entry point to her life rather moving.
Iron Lady is written by Abi Morgan (Shame (2011)) and directed by Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia! (2008)). It accomplishes depicting a lot of England's development during Thatcher's reign. However, it almost appears in the film to have been one long period of violent uprisings, which wasn't altogether the case. - And where was Reagan, the American president that Thatcher stood politically shoulder by shoulder with for years?
Still, The Iron Lady is a solid job made of an extremely difficult task, to make a broad-appealing biopic about one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century. It also features impressive, Oscar-winning make-up by Mark Coulier (The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)) and J. Roy Helland (Doubt (2008)). It is an almost great film.

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Watch the trailer for the film here

Cost: 8.2 mil. £
Box office: 114.9 mil. $
= Huge hit
[Though many people still resent Thatcher so much that they won't go near a film about her, and many others were angry at Iron Lady for not glorifying its subject more than it does, the film was seen by many in a wide range of countries; lead by the US (30 mil. $/26 %), the UK (15.3 mil. $/13 %), Australia (10.6 mil. $/9 %), Japan (10.3 mil. $/9 %) and followed by many other countries.]

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