Alicia I love this movie so much

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

RonaldReaganIsMyHero This "biography" is a complete sham with fictionalized events and such.Just about everything was made up in the name of entertainment, as opposed to the facts! Fact: Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War! Fact: Ronald Reagan helped to create over 20 million high paying jobs! Fact: Ronald Reagan was awarded an Honorary Knight of the British Empire! Fact: Ronald Reagan was awarded Japan's highest award for bravery! Fact: Ronald Reagan was named the greatest president of all time by the Gallup organization. Fact: Ronald Reagan also served honorably in the United States Army Air Force during World War II! That is why he is the hero among tens of millions of Americans who admire this great president!Everything else is pure fiction, folks!This movie presents nothing but fictionalized accounts of his presidency. In fact, the only thing the producers did for actual accuracy was to contact his library for costumes and such!But, alas, people didn't like Dwight Eisenhower during his presidency either, and he's now also a very popular ex-president!

dkelly8673 This movie was simply awful!!! First of all, this movie should have been titled. Nancy Regan, as the major focus of the movies was on her, not the former President. No matter your political bend, the movie portrayed President Reagan as doing nothing for the eight years that he was President. Instead of focusing on the fall of the Soviet Union, the booming Economy, restored faith in the country as a whole, it focused on, AIDS, the coldness of Nancy Reagan, and their bad relationship with their children. (This was true to an extent. Interestingly enough, one of the focuses of the movie was Patti Reagan's hatred of her mother and her "love" of her father. If she loved her father so much, why did she take her , mother's maiden name, and openly campaign against her father? None of which was mentioned in the movie. Aside from a typical left wing, one sided view of President Reagan, the acting was horrible. Brolin never had one moment portraying Reagan as serious. The whole movie was Jelly Beans and Bedtime for Bonzo. The movie was pulled because it was terrible. One last issue. The Kennedy movie with Martin Sheen was a total puff piece put out by Liberal Hollywood, but at least in that film, the acting was well done, and the movie was entertaining. The same can not be said of The Reagans.

briantaves For more than 30 years now, television has been churning out a stream of political "docu-dramas" depicting contemporary events and individuals. (Moreover, the term is a misnomer; they are no more–indeed, usually less–factual than the "biopics" and other historical historical fiction of the studio era.) Most of these TV "docu-dramas," no matter then length, have been bad, and some worse. For instance, plowing the same field as THE REAGANS was Showtime's THE DAY REAGAN WAS SHOT, highly melodramatic and woefully overacted. By contrast, THE REAGANS is everything these earlier films are not. In this respect, it takes a worthy place alongside the mini-series THE ADAMS CHRONICLES, or the vitally engaging one-man shows of BULLY or GIVE EM HELL, HARRY. In ambitiously tackling the actual presidency, THE REAGANS trumps the hagiography of Wilson (1944), and the many reverential treatments of Lincoln and his legends, or the exploitive biographies of the Kennedys. THE REAGANS avoids the traditional focus on a single incident in the presidential life, often highly fictionalized, such as SURISE AT CAMPOBELLO, THE PRESIDENT'S LADY, THE CROSSING, or JEFFERSON IN Paris.THE REAGANS is superbly written and nuanced; it both presents a new background along with the history of Reagan's rise to the presidency and the often alarming statements he made along the way (particularly if you grew up in California during his governorship, as I did). Utilizing his own utterances adds to the authenticity, giving THE REAGANS a constant sense of verisimilitude. While historically aggressive, it is not an attack on the individual, and grants him a generous personal latitude, and is infinitely fairer to its subject than Oliver Stone's NIXON. James Brolin, surprisingly, is an ideal choice as Reagan, and Judy Davis is no less perfect as Nancy. The other performers are equally well-chosen, all physically resembling their historical referent (with the notable–and thus annoying--exception of John Tower). Associates and family clearly fit their public personas, and this is perhaps what raised the most ire among Reaganites among the Republicans; the recent funeral and performances of sons Ron and Michael Reagan only demonstrates how superbly the film etched the family (among whom Ron Jr. certainly comes off as the best adjusted among a dysfunctional group of children). What brings all these factors together is the superb direction; this is not shot like the usual telefilm which can be "watched" while attending to the cleaning dishes. It is visually arresting and vigorously paced, and certainly benefits from its Showtime cable format without commercials. Whatever your political persuasion, I think this has to be regarded as one of the finest presidential screen biographies ever produced, not only in the television era, but among Hollywood theatrical movies as well.

Rose What were they thinking when they wrote about this President. And what were they thinking when they got James Brolin to do the acting. The acting was so terrible that I thought this was a joke. When I realized they were serious, it just made me sad than mad. They made Ronald Regan like a blundering idot, and his wife like a Hillary Clinton, He was one of the greatest presidents of our time and never got the credit he deserved. I just hope all the people involved in this garbage can sleep at night. Maybe next time stepford Brolin will listen more to his own instincts than someone else before he takes on a job like this.