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The Day Reagan Was Shot

  • TV Movie
  • 2001
  • R
  • 1h 38m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
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The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001)
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The 30th of March, 1981, the delusional John Hinckley Jr. tries to kill president Ronald Reagan. His life hangs on a thin thread at the hospital, while the Soviet Union is ready to invade a ... Read allThe 30th of March, 1981, the delusional John Hinckley Jr. tries to kill president Ronald Reagan. His life hangs on a thin thread at the hospital, while the Soviet Union is ready to invade a Poland on the brink of a revolution. Based on actual events during the final stages of the... Read allThe 30th of March, 1981, the delusional John Hinckley Jr. tries to kill president Ronald Reagan. His life hangs on a thin thread at the hospital, while the Soviet Union is ready to invade a Poland on the brink of a revolution. Based on actual events during the final stages of the cold war.

  • Director
    • Cyrus Nowrasteh
  • Writer
    • Cyrus Nowrasteh
  • Stars
    • Richard Dreyfuss
    • Richard Crenna
    • Yannick Bisson
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.3/10
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    • Director
      • Cyrus Nowrasteh
    • Writer
      • Cyrus Nowrasteh
    • Stars
      • Richard Dreyfuss
      • Richard Crenna
      • Yannick Bisson
    • 30User reviews
    • 27Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 1 nomination

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    Richard Dreyfuss
    Richard Dreyfuss
    • Alexander Haig
    Richard Crenna
    Richard Crenna
    • Ronald Reagan
    Yannick Bisson
    Yannick Bisson
    • Buddy Stein
    Colm Feore
    Colm Feore
    • Caspar Weinberger
    Michael Murphy
    Michael Murphy
    • Michael Deaver
    Kenneth Welsh
    Kenneth Welsh
    • James Baker
    Leon Pownall
    Leon Pownall
    • Ed Meese
    Robert Bockstael
    Robert Bockstael
    • Dick Allen
    Beau Starr
    Beau Starr
    • Special Agent Cage
    Alex Carter
    Alex Carter
    • Dr. Allard
    Andrew Tarbet
    Andrew Tarbet
    • Dr. Gregorio
    Holland Taylor
    Holland Taylor
    • Nancy Reagan
    Christian Lloyd
    Christian Lloyd
    • John Hinckley
    Sean McCann
    Sean McCann
    • Donald Regan
    Jack Jessop
    • William Casey
    John Connolly
    • James Brady
    Angela Gei
    • Sarah Brady
    Michael Greene
    Michael Greene
    • George Bush
    • Director
      • Cyrus Nowrasteh
    • Writer
      • Cyrus Nowrasteh
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    • Trivia
      Richard Dreyfuss felt he was miscast as Alexander Haig, but also felt it was nevertheless fun.
    • Goofs
      The presidential airplane was a version of the Boeing 707 at the time of the assassination, not the Boeing 747 currently in use.
    • Quotes

      Alexander Haig: Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the President, the Vice President and the Secretary of State in that order, and should the President decide he wants to transfer the helm to the Vice President, he will do so. He has not done that. As of now, I am in control here, in the White House, pending return of the Vice President and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.

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      Referenced in Jeopardy!: Episode #22.82 (2006)

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    While the drama of this movie was entertaining, the reality was that the only people who got their knickers in a twist about this at the time were the media. In fact, it was only later that the anti-nuclear crowd, the bow-tied Harvard elite used this as a political opportunity to question whose finger was really on the trigger, and was the constitution was being ignored!

    For those that look at movies to perform some sort of academic gratification or for those who live for governmental conspiracy theories and anti nuclear messages then this is the stuff for you. While 12 DAYS IN MAY was fiction and JFK stuffed with so many wild theories and ludicrous speculation THE DAY REAGAN WAS SHOT was a factual event that Hollywood has distorted to suggest we were near a nuclear war or a constitutional meltdown. Non of this was true, sure international politics at the time were tense, but the fact of the matter was that as soon as the president is incapacitated the constitutional procedure follows that the vice president takes charge. Al Hague said that he was in charge of the White House that is irrelevant if he has not got access to the nuclear codes that the President and Vice president has.

    Interestingly was has been overlooked was that between 1981-1984 the USSR had to replace it's doddering and bedridden premiers three times until they put in Mikhail Gorbachov. Nobody in Hollywood seemed too be worried whose fingers were on the Soviets trigger for all that time bearing in mind some of them were never seen in public for months and were in a comatose state for weeks!!
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    • Release date
      • December 9, 2001 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Crónica de un atentado
    • Filming locations
      • Cinespace Film Studios - 11030 Highway 27, Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada(Studio, Oval Office)
    • Production companies
      • Halsted Pictures
      • Ixtlan
      • Paramount Network Television Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 38 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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