History Film / TheIronLady

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The damage Thatcher did to industrial communities is skated over, with the protesters being shown in a fairly unsympathetic light, whilst Michael Foot is supposedly a buffoon. The film, regardless of artistic quality, is shameless hagiography from beginning to end. It's somewhat justified by the fact that the majority of the film is composed of Thatcher's own flashbacks of events, so it could easily be a case of SelfServingMemory.

* CloudCuckooLander: In her old age, Thatcher is getting a bit loopy. Mostly manifested through Denis (who, we should recall, is in ''Maggie's'' head).

** [[spoiler:In the scene where Denis proposes to Margaret, she exclaims, "I donʻt want to end life washing up a teacup!" Sheʻs doing exactly that in the movieʻs final scene.]]

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The damage Thatcher did to industrial communities is skated over, with the protesters being shown in a fairly unsympathetic light, whilst Michael Foot is supposedly a buffoon. The film, regardless of artistic quality, is shameless hagiography from beginning to end. It's somewhat softened by the fact that the entire film [[UnreliableNarrator essentially takes place in Thatcher's own head]].

* LaserGuidedKarma: Maggie gets hard with his. Her Cabinet keeps trying to tell that her "Community Charge" is a bad idea because most of the UK's population think it unfair. Maggie responds by giving them a rather malignant and insulting ReasonYouSuckSpeech. So when she's eventually challenged for party leadership, they get their payback by withdrawing their support for her thereby forcing her to resign.

* TheUnseen: Mark Thatcher.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: As a young MP, Maggie was frustrated that her opinions and concerns were always shot down by others.....so when she becomes Prime Minister she does the same not only to the Labour Opposition but also her own cabinet. It doesn't end well for her.

* RantInducingSlight: After some ministers tell Maggie that she should not go forward with her "Community Charge" because many people believe it's unfair, Thatcher gives a rather malicious ReasonYouSuckSpeech to her ''entire'' cabinet, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking calling them cowards for not wanting to put up a fight and traitors for willing to make compromises with the European Union, and agreeing with French economic theories.]]

* DeathGlare: Thatcher gives an undeserved one to her cabinet just because some ministers are beginning to disagree with her on certain policies
* FatalFlaw: Well to her political career anyway, Maggie's flaw is that she believes herself to be right about everyone, and her ministers aren't. Eventually her cabinet gets fed up with this, which leads to her losing the Premiership

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:In the scene where Denis proposes to Margaret, she exclaims, "I donʻt want to end life washing up a teacup!" Sheʻs doing exactly that in the movieʻs final scene.]]

* UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar: Exactly what it says on the tin.