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VIDEO FLASH: Meryl Streep Plays Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady Movie

The Weinstein Company has released a teaser trailer for the movie The Iron Lady, which stars Meryl Streep as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Phyllida Lloyd is directing the project, which has a screenplay by Abi Morgan. The film is slated for release in January 2012

The movie is a biography of the woman who was British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. The cast also features Jim Broadbent as Jim Thatcher. The younger incarnations of the Thatchers will be played by Alexandra Roach and Harry Lloyd. Also in the cast are Olivia Colman, Susan Brown, Roger Allam, Anthony Head, Julian Wadham, Nick Dunning, Richard E Grant, and David Westhead.



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