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Meryl Streep
Margaret Thatcher
Anthony Stewart Head
Geoffrey Howe
Harry Lloyd
Young Denis Thatcher
Jim Broadbent
Denis Thatcher
Susan Brown
June
Alice da Cunha
Cleaner
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Susie
Iain Glen
Alfred Roberts
Alexandra Roach
Young Margaret Thatcher
Victoria Bewick
Muriel Roberts
Olivia Colman
Carol Thatcher
Eloise Webb
Young Carol
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Hostess 1949
Michael Culkin
Host 1949
Michael Cochrane
William
Nicholas Farrell
Airey Neave
John Sessions
Edward Heath
David Westhead
Shadow Minister
Julian Wadham
Francis Pym
Richard E. Grant
Michael Heseltine
Roger Allam
Gordon Reece
Stephen Boxer
Cabinet Ministers
Simon Chandler
Cabinet Ministers
Michael Pennington
Michael Foot
Andrew Havill
Cabinet Ministers
Matthew Marsh
Alexander Haig
Nicholas Jones
Admiral Leach
David Rintoul
Admiral Fieldhouse
Pip Torrens
Ian Gilmour
Michael Maloney
Doctor
Robert Portal
Grey Suited Guest 1949
Angela Curran
Crawfie
David Cann
TV Interviewer
Rupert Vansittart
Cabinet Minister
Stephanie Jacob
Female Guest 1949

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Jul 23 2023

Told by way of a retrospective, Meryl Streep is the elderly Baroness Thatcher who is struggling to get over the death of her husband Sir Denis (Jim Broadbent) and dealing with the onset of dementia that is distressing her daughter Carol (Olivia Colman) and is causing her to forget yesterday but vividly recall the moments from her past that led to her domination of British politics for ten years. Streep does well mimicking the style and voice of the politician, but the back and forth style of the film's timelines robs it of much of it's potency. It is hard to be critical of the woman or her styl...