Reagan (2011)

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Country: UK, USA
Genres: Biography, Documentary
Release: 2011-01-23
Director: Eugene Jarecki
Writers: Eugene Jarecki
Language: English
Stars: Bud Abbott , Walter Abel , Spiro Agnew
Runtime: 105 min
Awards: 4 wins & 1 nomination
AKA: Ronald Reagan (France, French Republic) , American Idol: Reagan (United Kingdom) , Ronald Reagan: Geliebt und gehasst (Germany) , Рейган (Russian Federation) , Ronald Reagan (Finland) , Reagan (United States of America) , Reagan
Plot: 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.
IMDB:tt1822382