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Alice da Cunha | ... |
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Victoria Bewick | ... |
Muriel Roberts
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Beatrice Roberts
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Carol Thatcher
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| Sylvestra Le Touzel | ... |
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Stephanie Jacob | ... |
Female Guest 1949
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Robert Portal | ... |
Grey Suited Guest 1949
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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 Margaret's life forever. Written by don @ minifie-1
I am so disappointed in the film and in the widely talked up performance of Meryl Streep.
This movie was politically shallow, and to think of all the material they had to work with. Sigh......
What a unique, substantive pioneering individual MT was - yet this movie managed to provide no political substance nor enlightenment into the personal struggles and achievements this woman managed to deliver and experienced throughout her journey as the first female leader of a country which at the time was one of the most patriarchal, class based, yet economic leaders of the western world.
It amounts to nothing more than a sexist, try hard attempt at personal biography. Delivering little more than a document on the ravages and sadness that accompanies this vile disease of Alzheimer's.
Where is Stone or Spielberg? This ground breaking woman deserved so much more..........