The Iron Lady (Blu-ray)

An Oscar worthy (and winning) performance worked into what feels more like a dry TV movie than anything you would want to spend time watching in a theater - which might explain its inability to catch on at the box-office. The Iron Lady never really feels like it gets off the ground and beyond Streep's performance, isn't captivating in the least.

Anchor Bay Entertainment and The Weinstein Company announced today the Blu-ray™ Combo Pack and DVD release of THE IRON LADY, starring two-time Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep (SOPHIE’S CHOICE, KRAMER VS. KRAMER) as former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher.  Considered by many to be the greatest living film actress, Streep has received an astonishing 17 Oscar® nominations over the course of her career, including a 2012 Oscar® nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of Thatcher in THE IRON LADY.  Streep won a 2012 Golden Globe® award for this role, and received a 2012 Screen Actors Guild Award® nomination as well.  Directed by Phyllida Lloyd (MAMMA MIA!) from a screenplay by Abi Morgan (SHAME).

THE IRON LADY also stars Academy Award® winner Jim Broadbent (IRIS), Olivia Colman (TYRANNOSAUR), Alexandra Roach, Harry Lloyd (“GAME OF THRONES”), and Richard E. Grant (DRACULA).  In addition to Streep’s 2012 Academy Award® nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the film also received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Makeup (Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland). 
 
The most celebrated actress of our time stars as the most powerful woman of her time.  Oscar® winning Meryl Streep, the most nominated performer in Academy Award® history, delivers the definitive portrayal of Margaret Thatcher, the enigmatic, highly controversial figure who became the first and only female Prime Minister of England.  Much more than a biographical epic, THE IRON LADY is also the surprisingly intimate journey of a “common” grocer’s daughter whose social ambition and steel will —along with the love of her husband and confidant, Denis (Academy Award® winner Jim Broadbent) — propelled her to unprecedented power in a world dominated by men. 
 
Combining fact, fiction and poetic flight of imagination into a new breed of biopic, director Phyllida Lloyd (MAMMA MIA) creates a piercing portrait which reveals the many faces of Margaret Thatcher: the hard-nosed conservative; the woman who demolished the barriers of gender and class in a male-dominated world; the spirited wife and mother who longed to change her country for the better.  Exposing the private life behind the headlines, THE IRON LADY is a moving journey into the heart of an extraordinary, complex woman.