Carousel Cinemas at Alamance Crossing, Burlington, NC
1090 Piper LaneBurlington, NC 27215
Phone (336) 538-9900
Runtime 112 min
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, 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.
Rated PG-13 (for some violent images and brief nudity)
Meryl Streep’s physical transformation into Margaret Thatcher with prosthetic make-up and Hollywood magic was quite remarkable, as was her portrayal of the Prime Minister.
The script took a very odd angle in portraying the PM’s life.
The “lens” used to recall Thatcher’s life is largely through her Alzheimer’s dementia. The movie omits orientating dates such as the year of her husband’s death (2003) and the year when her moments of confusion were obvious (2010 – 2011) and inhibited her ability to travel to honorary dinners and speaking engagements.
The first sign that she was having some memory or confusion problems was in 2008 when she confused the facts of the Falklands war and the Iraq war….. This first sign of a memory problem manifested itself 18 years after she lost her support for PM in 1990.
While Alzheimer’s is progressive, it doesn’t happen `overnight` ….. which was not entirely portrayed in the movie.
The omission of those and facts dates made the otherwise excellent movie confusing and misleading to viewers unfamiliar with Thatcher.