Haven't seen it yet but I do rate her as an excellent actress  her attention to detail and getting accents right blows me away.

Saw her in that Julie and Julia over Christmas on the BBC - her mannerisms and voice was pure Julia Childs - I'm still amazed at it 

Pengy saw that film too, it was excellent.. but wait until you get a chance to see the Iron Lady...Streep is in a class of her own..Best Actress to come out of America by a country mile..

I shall have to see it soon and I agree she is in a class of her own 

I watched it last night .......a truly magnificent performance by Meryl Streep - wasn't Maggie an old rat bag though?

Hi Sooz! happy new year to you hun....And yes totally agree about Maggie!!

I watched it too...    & Meryl was very good.

The film as a whole left me feeling something was lacking though...    on the one hand the way it was done...   with Maggies dementia very much at the forefront of it all was really interesting (I really loved how she still kind of had Dennis with her...    can't help liking Dennis)..     

but, I don't know...   it seemed to portray her as very much a victim in parliament...    a female who was always fighting her corner, and somewhat intimidated by the task.   I know that is not the reality (my late great uncle described her as the most charismatic, powerful, self assured & therefore sexy woman (wtf wtf wtf) he had ever met.   He reckoned the men fell at her feet).     & then, all of a sudden - at the point of the poll tax stuff..   she morphs into a dictator style biatch from hell - and there seemed to be an insinuation that this was the start of the dementia.

The continuity of the character within the flashback scenes didn't feel right.

On another note..    REALLY hard film for MrD & I to watch together..   we were on different sides of the fence in terms of the effect that Maggies time as PM had on our lives..    me in the North, him, private school boy in the South...     we ended up doing quite a lot of tongue biting (ok.. yeah, I did have the odd outburst )

I wanted to watch it, will try to catch it online.

I have a strong resistance to British history and politics being packaged for an American audience.  I didn't watch "The Kings Speech" and various other British films of a similar style because I just think we have too much of an eye on selling the UK in a particular way that plays well with American audiences and their stereotypes of this country. 

I couldn't take the prospect of an American millionaire actress, albeit a well known so-called liberal one - doing Thatcher for a US audience fond of the evil old witch. 

I was particularly annoyed at the film's gratuitous and historically inaccurate presentation of Parliament as all male, presumably to play up the whole b****t Thatcher mythology.  

I've not seen it but agree she's an excellent actress of the highest calibre. I remember reading one time a well known actress saying if there were several actresses called up for a part as soon as they heard Meryl was one of them they all knew they wouldn't get the part.