Dennis Quaid’s ‘Reagan’ Exceeds Box Office Expectations, Bringing in $10.3 Million

The biopic “Reagan” exceeded box office expectations after its release over Labor Day weekend.
The full-length feature film, starring Dennis Quaid, is the story of former President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy Reagan, who is portrayed by Penelope Ann Miller.
Directed by Sean McNamara, “Reagan” is based on the 2006 book “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism” by author and professor Paul Kengor.
“What I can say is when the movie was over, people were wiping tears from their eyes, and the theater broke into applause. I haven’t been to a movie in years where an audience reacted this way,” one reviewer wrote. “It’s inspirational. It’s feel good and positive. It’s historical. It’s real and well done. It recounted a time when people who disagreed found ways to stay friends and work together for the good of the country.”
“A remarkable piece of filmmaking that not only brings a popular president to vivid new life but puts his unlikely story into the broadest possible cosmic context,” another reviewer said. “Dennis Quaid delivers a career-topping performance of stunning breadth—and depth.”
“It’s a biopic. It’s a love story. It’s about all of us as America, where we used to be,” he said. “A lot of that gets twisted because people have agendas. And so, yeah, they tried to cancel me a couple of times, but so what?”
The 70-year-old actor said the 40th president was “like everybody’s dad at the time that he was president,” noting that people either admired or rebelled against their fathers. “With what we were going through with politics or whatever in this country today, a lot of people wanting to kind of relate that to Reagan and make this a political movie, which it’s not,” Quaid said.
For his performance as the 42nd president, Quaid earned a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. He starred alongside Michael Sheen as Tony Blair and Hope Davis, who portrayed Hillary Clinton.
In “American Dreamz,” Quaid played a fictional American president named Joseph Staton, a character loosely resembling George W. Bush, alongside Hugh Grant, Marcia Gay Harden as First Lady, and Willem Dafoe as Chief of Staff.
But out of all the U.S. presidents, Quaid said Reagan was at the top of his list.