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the iron lady (2011)

the iron lady
The Iron Lady
PG-13
Biography
Documentary
Drama
History

Release Date
December 30, 2011
Director
Phyllida Lloyd
Cast
Meryl Streep , Jim Broadbent , Susan Brown , Alice da Cunha , Phoebe Waller-Bridge , Iain Glen
Runtime
105
Main Genre
Biography
Writers
Abi Morgan
Tagline
Never compromise.

Summary

The Iron Lady is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. One of the 20th century’s most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world.

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