Emotion provoking scenes of old lady reminiscing (in spite of dementia where the margin between reality and old memory is blurred) the old times that she went through in her life from a daughter of a grocer battling through playing fields of the male dominated politics and finally in her twilight of her life when others feel that she is incapable of doing anything on her own.
This film is different from most biographies in that the story moves to and fro from the present to the past and back, making the makeup more and more believable.
It starts with the present day aged MT shopping for milk at a grocer. She goes back to her flat, talking away and arguing with her husband Dennis. Only later we realize that Dennis is long death and gone！
The story then unfolds about the small town grocer's young daughter being accepted to Oxford, meeting her first love, Dennis, whom later proposes to her and her slow ascent to her status as the most powerful era on in UK.
The movie does not fall into the trap of telling too much in too short a time. Instead, the director concentrates on certain issues that rocked the world like the emotional Falkland Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the multiple IRA bombings and finally her ouster after 12 years at the helm.
The convincing acting is complemented with equally powerful dialogues which is dearth most new movies.
The movie ended with MT coming in terms with the fact that Dennis is dead and she does her own cleaning like she promised Dennis she would NEVER DO!
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