Reel Lessons

The Iron Lady

Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister, gets the Hollywood biopic treatment.
<div style="text-align: left;"> Meryl Streep as former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher </div>
<div style="text-align: left;"> Meryl Streep as former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher </div>
May 24, 2012

Is this a movie about maids?
No, it's a movie about Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister during the 1980s. She's the only woman to have held the position and is lovingly remembered by City types of a certain vintage.
I thought the City was a bit of an old boys' club.


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