The Iron Lady (2011) - The A.V. Club

Cast

Meryl Streep (Margaret Thatcher)Jim Broadbent (Denis Thatcher)Richard E. Grant (Michael Heseltine)Susan Brown (June - Housekeeper)Alice da Cunha (Cleaner)Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Susie - Margaret's Secretary)Iain Glen (Alfred Roberts)Alexandra Roach (Young Margaret Thatcher)Victoria Bewick (Muriel Roberts)Emma Dewhurst (Beatrice Roberts)Olivia Colman (Carol Thatcher)Harry Lloyd (Young Denis Thatcher)Sylvestra Le Touzel (Hostess 1949)Michael Culkin (Host 1949)Stephanie Jacob (Female Guest 1949)Robert Portal (Grey Suited Guest - 1949)Richard Dixon (Male Guest - 1949)Amanda Root (Amanda)

Director

Phyllida Lloyd

Synopsis

An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.