The Iron Lady
Cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Meryl Streep’s makeup
Summary: An aging Margaret Thatcher, struggling with Alzheimer’s, looks back on her life and career and husband.
100-Word Review: The audience is told several times that it’s Hard To Be A Woman In Politics – in case you didn’t know that – in a poorly directed missed opportunity that glosses over the most interesting parts of Thatcher’s career (the Falkland Islands invasion, being overthrown by her party) to focus on her struggle with dementia, and didn’t even tell that story well. Several editing and directorial choices are unintentionally hilarious and laughably bad, and I heard Streep’s Julia Child voice slip through her Margaret Thatcher voice several times. If she wins her third Oscar for this performance, it will be an embarrassment.
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