Margaret
Margaret
Release: 2009-03-26
·Runtime: 113m
·★ 5.8
TV Movie
Drama
A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
BBC
Great Meadow Productions
Cast
Christian McKay
as John Whittingdale
Robert Hardy
as Willie Whitelaw
Roger Allam
as John Wakeham
Kevin McNally
as Kenneth Clarke
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
as John Sergeant
Elizabeth Bennett
as Sue Mastriforte
Michael Cochrane
as Alan Clark
Tim Wallers
as MP
Nigel Le Vaillant
as Ted Heath
James Fox
as Charles Powell
Paul Jesson
as Kenneth Baker
Alan Cox
as Gordon Reece
Mark Perry
as John MacGregor
John Sessions
as Geoffrey Howe
Oliver Cotton
as Michael Heseltine
Ian McDiarmid
as Denis Thatcher
Roy Marsden
as Norman Tebbit
Nicholas Le Prevost
as Douglas Hurd
Diana Kent
as Margaret King
Tim McMullan
as William Waldegrave
Nicholas Jones
as Tim Renton
Michael Maloney
as John Major
Dermot Crowley
as Airey Neave
Douglas McFerran
as MP
Philip Jackson
as Bernard Ingham
Nicholas Day
as Cranley Onslow
Nicholas Rowe
as Malcolm Rifkind
Lindsay Duncan
as Margaret Thatcher
Guy Henry
as Tristan Garel-Jones
Julian Firth
as Norman Lamont
Rosemary Leach
as The Queen
Olivia Poulet
as Carol Thatcher
Rupert Vansittart
as Peter Morrison
Charlotte Asprey
as Caroline Stephens
Oliver Le Sueur
as Mark Thatcher
