 Also in 2007 , Streep had a short role alongside Vanessa Redgrave , Glenn Close and her eldest daughter Mamie Gummer in Lajos Koltai 's drama film Evening , based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Susan Minot . Switching between the present and the past , it tells the story of a bedridden woman , who remembers her tumultuous life in the mid @-@ 1950s . The film was released to a lukewarm reaction from critics , who called it " beautifully filmed , but decidedly dull [ and ] a colossal waste of a talented cast . " Streep 's last film of 2007 was Robert Redford 's Lions for Lambs , a film about the connection between a platoon of United States soldiers in Afghanistan , a U.S. senator , a reporter , and a California college professor . Like Evening , critics felt that the talent of the cast was wasted and that it suffered from slow pacing , although one critic announced that Streep positively stood out , being " natural , unforced , quietly powerful " , in comparison to Redford 's forced performance . 
