Killing Reagan
Based on the best-selling book, the movie gives us a dramatized look at the 1980 presidential election and the events that led to the assassination attempt made on Ronald Regan by John Hinckley Jr.
4 June 1972, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
25 November 1990, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
9 April 1966, New York City, New York, USA
21 November 1968, Parma, Ohio, USA
20 April 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 May 1971, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
14 September 1965, Marietta, Georgia, USA
30 September 1967, Beckley, West Virginia, USA
October 21, 2016
Tim Matheson captures the essence of the Reagan persona - a born performer whose public and private selves were so in sync, perhaps even happily, that they became indistinguishable.October 14, 2016
Killing Reagan is pretty much the expected, rote bio movie of the assassination attempt on President Reagan by John Hinckley Jr.October 14, 2016
Killing Reagan, which airs on the National Geographic Channel on Sunday, Oct. 16, feels rushed and incomplete, compressing this historic episode into a flat pancake of pointlessness.October 17, 2016
Someday there will be an engrossing cinematic portrait of Reagan that explores the man's faults and merits with equal measure. Killing Reagan is not that film.October 17, 2016
Director Rod Lurie does a masterful job of serving the story and the emotions without sentimentality.October 14, 2016
The best moments are the quiet little conversations between Ron and Nancy. Matheson and Nixon are convincing as a close couple united by true love as well as common goals and ambitions.October 17, 2016
Director Rod Lurie plays it down the middle, though he has a tough time replicating Washington in Atlanta, where the whole thing was shot.