She is a great actress, but I won’t be seeing her hit piece on Thatcher.
It actually wasn’t a hit-piece on Thatcher. It shows her triumphs, when everybody loved her, as well as the moments when the Brits hated her (mostly thanks to the left-wing press). In general, I thought it was a personal story, and it didn’t focus on her policies. However, it had some great scenes with the young Maggie putting down the old-boys-network with a few witty, Reaganesque phrases, and does show her as a grocer’s daughter who is always reminded that the privileged class (most of them lefties) think she’s a freak and wish that she’d go back to the grocery store.
Mostly the story focused on how her public life impacted her relationship with various family members, particularly her husband (and I thought their relationship was very true to life and touching, particularly her anger at him for dying and leaving her, since this is something I saw with my own mother).