Meryl Streep is, in all probability, the most awarded, if not financially rewarded,
actresses of the past few generations. She is called 'the best actress
of several generations' and holds the record for the most Oscar
nominations and received her 19th for "The Iron Lady". She is acclaimed all over the world and, recently, starred in, and carried, 4 major pictures.

In
"The Iron Lady" she gives a master class in acting, showing how to use
an accent, wardrobe and make up to impersonate, not become, Margaret
Thatcher. There are a small group of people, and I belong to them, who
claim that they can see Streep acting, not becoming the character she is playing. She puts over who
Thatcher may have been but because she is so much into her impersonation
that she doesn't connect with anyone else in the film from Jim Broadbent playing her husband Dennis, Olivia Brown as her daughter Carol or the
various actors playing the politicians she was involved with.

Alexandra
Roach who plays the young Margaret Thatcher is a more realistic human
being, with feelings, while Streep portrays the elder as a person
without connections to the human beings around her.

The direction by Phyllida Lloyd, and the screenplay by Abi Morgan, is confusing at times and, aside from the fact that Thatcher
was the first female Prime Minister of England, unless you come with the knowledge of her run in office and what she did, or didn't do, you won't learn much or her importance in history.

Americans
will hear a lot in the movie that they are hearing now from the
Republicans as they seek the nomination for President and though the
film should resonate with the American audience they already may be bored with election stories and the movie will be too slow moving.

Jim
Broadbent brings what emotions, warmth, he can to the film but Streep is
too busy 'acting' to bring any part of the human being that Thatcher
may have been, still she may win that third Oscar.