The re-creation of events leading up to Margaret Thatcher's defeat as party leader and Britain's Prime Minister.
Acting
Sylvia Syms captures Thatcher's steel cracking without becoming parody.
Writing
Dialogue sharper than the knives being planted in her back.
Director
Tim Sullivan
Sylvia Syms
Margaret Thatcher
Bruce Alexander
John Gummer
Christopher Benjamin
George Younger
T.R. Bowen
Kenneth Baker
Stephen Boxer
John Sergeant
Tom Chadbon
Edward Leigh
Paul Daneman
Douglas Hurd
Edward de Souza
John Wakeham
Keith Drinkel
John Major
David Hargreaves
Charles Powell
Bernard Holley
Paddy Ashdown
Bernard Horsfall
Alan Clark
Glyn Houston
Bernard Ingham
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sylvia Syms had played Thatcher before in 1982's 'Anyone for Denis?'—making her the definitive screen Iron Lady until Meryl arrived.
This aired mere months after Thatcher's actual resignation, making it essentially instant historical fiction. British television wasted NO time.
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