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7.1/10   109 votes
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Director:
Niall MacCormick
Writer:
Tony Saint (written by)
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Release Date:
12 June 2008 (UK) more
Genre:
Biography | Drama more
Plot:
A light-hearted retelling of the true story of future prime minister Margaret Thatcher, during the fifties when, working as a research chemist, she begins her attempts to be selected for parliament, and meets her future husband Dennis. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
4 wins & 6 nominations more
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BBC plans film on MPs' expenses row
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User Comments:
Superb political film. more (5 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Andrea Riseborough ... Margaret Thatcher

Philip Jackson ... Alfred Roberts
Michael Gould ... John Miller
Jonathan Aris ... Stanley Soward
Rory Kinnear ... Denis Thatcher

Samuel West ... Ted Heath
Lydia Leonard ... Joyce
Marcia Warren ... Old Dear
Michael Cochrane ... Sir Waldron Smithers
Sylvestra Le Touzel ... Patricia Hornsby-Smith
Christian Rodska ... Lieutenant Colonel Digby

Robert Whitelock ... Bert
Geoffrey McGivern ... Dartford Returning Officer / TV & Radio Announcer (as Geoff McGivern)
James Laurenson ... Leslie Thomas
Claire Vousden ... Nanny
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Runtime:
84 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Company:
Great Meadow Productions more

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In the opening titles, the play was subtitled "How Margaret might have done it". more

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4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Superb political film., 27 October 2008
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Author: rps-2 from Bracebridge Ont

I loathed Margaret Thatcher. I loved this film. It's perhaps the best political movie I've ever seen, certainly far far ahead of even the best American political films. It's an interesting approach to document Thatcher's early years rather than her later fame as prime minister. Yet the future leader is strongly evident in Andrea Riseborough's brilliant interpretation of Thatcher as an iron willed flirt. No small feat to transpose the well known Thatcher haughty expression, purposeful gait and swinging handbag to the younger and sexier woman of an earlier era. Rory Kinnear has captured Dennis Thatcher's bumbling anonymity perfectly. And Geoffrey Palmer... The wonderful and versatile Geoffrey Palmer... His curmudgeonly establishment Tory character is priceless. I stumbled on this film on TV Ontario. Rather than watch it, because I was tired, I recorded it. I'm glad I did because the DVD now has a place of honour among my "keepers."

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