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Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley (TV 2008)

TV Movie  -   -  Biography | Drama  -  12 June 2008 (UK)
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A light-hearted retelling of the true story of future prime minister Margaret Thatcher, during the fifties when, working as a research chemist, she begins her attempts to be selected for parliament, and meets her future husband Dennis.

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Michael Gould ...
John Miller
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Stanley Soward
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Joyce
Marcia Warren ...
Old Dear
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Sir Waldron Smithers
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Patricia Hornsby-Smith
Christian Rodska ...
Lieutenant Colonel Digby
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Bert
Geoffrey McGivern ...
Dartford Returning Officer / TV & Radio Announcer (as Geoff McGivern)
James Laurenson ...
Leslie Thomas
Claire Vousden ...
Nanny
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In a post-war election Margaret Roberts, University educated daughter of shop-keeper Alf from Grantham, is determined to get herself elected as a prospective Parliamentary candidate for the Consevative party but without any success. Although her friend Patricia wins a seat,the notion of a woman candidate is frowned upon by Old Guard members like Sir John Sowdon and she gets no support from fellow hopeful - who does get elected - Ted Heath. But she is tenacious and committed and, loyally backed by her business-man husband Dennis finally wins that coveted seat in parliament a decade on. She has successfully completed that long walk to Finchley. Written by don @ minifie-1

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12 June 2008 (UK)  »

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Margaret Thatcher: O makrys dromos gia to Finchley  »

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In the opening titles, the play was subtitled "How Margaret might have done it". See more »

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The opening titles were typed on an ancient manual typewriter. See more »

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Referenced in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #20.77 (2012) See more »

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Superb political film.
27 October 2008 | by (Bracebridge Ont) – See all my reviews

I loathed Margaret Thatcher. I loved this film. It's perhaps the best political movie I've ever seen, certainly far far ahead of even the best American political films. It's an interesting approach to document Thatcher's early years rather than her later fame as prime minister. Yet the future leader is strongly evident in Andrea Riseborough's brilliant interpretation of Thatcher as an iron willed flirt. No small feat to transpose the well known Thatcher haughty expression, purposeful gait and swinging handbag to the younger and sexier woman of an earlier era. Rory Kinnear has captured Dennis Thatcher's bumbling anonymity perfectly. And Geoffrey Palmer... The wonderful and versatile Geoffrey Palmer... His curmudgeonly establishment Tory character is priceless. I stumbled on this film on TV Ontario. Rather than watch it, because I was tired, I recorded it. I'm glad I did because the DVD now has a place of honour among my "keepers."


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