Reagan (2011)

Reagan examines the enigmatic career of one of the revered architects of the modern world - icon, screen star, and two-term president Ronald Reagan.

Director:

Eugene Jarecki

Writer:

Eugene Jarecki

Stars:

Bud Abbott, Walter Abel, Spiro Agnew

2 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Bud Abbott	...	Himself (archive footage)
Walter Abel	...	Himself (archive footage)
Spiro Agnew	...	Himself (archive footage)
Martin Anderson	...	Himself - Reagan historian
Lauren Bacall	...	Herself (archive footage)
Andrew Bacevich	...	Himself - Boston University
James Baker III	...	Himself - Reagan Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Treasury
Glenn Beck	...	Himself (archive footage)
Alvah Bessie	...	Himself (archive footage)
Herbert J. Biberman	...	Himself (archive footage)
Lewis Black	...	Himself (archive footage)
John Boehner	...	Himself (archive footage)
Humphrey Bogart	...	Himself (archive footage)
Leonid Brezhnev	...	Himself (archive footage)
Pat Buchanan	...	Himself - Reagan Communications Director

Storyline

Ronald Reagan as a man, as compared to his legacy, is rich territory for exploration, and a line from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is just one of the many things that springs to mind after viewing filmmaker Eugene Jarecki's latest opus, Reagan (Jarecki's Why We Fight won the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize: Documentary). Speaking at his funeral, Mark Antony said of Caesar, "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones." With a firm grasp of Reagan's story, Jarecki avoids the predictable and takes the long view on Reagan's life and influence, while staying centered on him as a man of deep contradiction; an American whose patriotism paradoxically led him to impeachable acts, a liberal Democrat who came to define the modern conservative movement.

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Plot Keywords:

ronald reagan | career | debt | seventy something | political leader | 

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Genres:

Documentary | Biography

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Details

Country:

USA UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 January 2011 (USA)

Also Known As:

Ronald Reagan

Company Credits

Production Co:

Charlotte Street Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min

Color:

Black and White Color

User Reviews

Typical Left-Wing Bias

This film is very bias! It was created by a liberal filmmaker who is trying to make Reagan look horrible. It's a terrible documentary.

It skips around things. The film looks at a couple things Reagan did bad as president and it does not even look at all his success he had especially with the economy in fact it actually skews the facts and misleads people a lot. For example: I noticed towards the end of the documentary that there is footage put in there of a news reporter saying something like "7 million more Americans are living in poverty since Reagan took office."

Look up the official poverty rate numbers and you'll see when Reagan took office the poverty rate was at 14%. The next year it was at 15.2% due to the bad recession that had started right before Reagan took office and the filmmaker never even mentions the recession. When Reagan left office the poverty rate was at 13%.

So the poverty rate was at 14% went up to 15.2% and was at 13% when Reagan left office. The filmmaker clearly adds in the news report trying to skew facts making it look like the economy failed under Reagan. IT IS VERY MISLEADING TO PEOPLE.

You should be ashamed of yourself Eugene Jarecki. You are not a respectable filmmaker! There is much more I can call you out on but don't fell like typing anymore.