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
Lindsay Duncan
as Margaret Thatcher
Kevin McNally
as Kenneth Clarke
James Fox
as Charles Powell
Mark Perry
as John MacGregor
Tim Wallers
as MP
Michael Maloney
as John Major
Roy Marsden
as Norman Tebbit
Oliver Cotton
as Michael Heseltine
Elizabeth Bennett
as Sue Mastriforte
Olivia Poulet
as Carol Thatcher
Michael Cochrane
as Alan Clark
Tim McMullan
as William Waldegrave
Philip Jackson
as Bernard Ingham
Rupert Vansittart
as Peter Morrison
Paul Jesson
as Kenneth Baker
Christian McKay
as John Whittingdale
Charlotte Asprey
as Caroline Stephens
Douglas McFerran
as MP
Julian Firth
as Norman Lamont
Nicholas Rowe
as Malcolm Rifkind
Roger Allam
as John Wakeham
Dermot Crowley
as Airey Neave
Nicholas Jones
as Tim Renton
Guy Henry
as Tristan Garel-Jones
Rosemary Leach
as The Queen
Nicholas Day
as Cranley Onslow
John Sessions
as Geoffrey Howe
Diana Kent
as Margaret King
Oliver Le Sueur
as Mark Thatcher
Ian McDiarmid
as Denis Thatcher
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
as John Sergeant
Nigel Le Vaillant
as Ted Heath
Robert Hardy
as Willie Whitelaw
Nicholas Le Prevost
as Douglas Hurd
Alan Cox
as Gordon Reece
