Director: Sean McNamara
Dennis Quaid steps into the role of a man whose voice shaped American politics for decades, tracing the arc of Ronald Reagan from a modest Illinois upbringing to two terms in the Oval Office.
What is Reagan about?
The film moves across roughly seven decades, opening with a childhood marked by a difficult home life and a lifeguard job that, as the story tells it, first revealed Reagan's instinct for public performance. From there it follows his shift from radio announcer to Hollywood actor, his growing involvement in union politics as head of the Screen Actors Guild, and his pivot toward conservative politics in California. The back half of the runtime settles into the presidency itself, touching the Cold War standoff with the Soviet Union, the attempted assassination in 1981, and the political relationships that defined his two terms. Rather than a single dramatic incident, the narrative is structured as a career-spanning portrait, narrated in part through the eyes of a retired Soviet intelligence officer who watched Reagan's rise from across the ideological divide.
Cast & crew
Dennis Quaid carries the film across its full timeline, aging from a young broadcaster into the elder statesman years. David Henrie appears as the film's narrating KGB analyst, giving the story its outside vantage point, while Jon Voight, Robert Davi, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Mena Suvari round out a supporting cast spanning Reagan's political and personal circles. Penelope Ann Miller and Lesley-Anne Down also feature among the ensemble surrounding the central performance.
Context & significance
Directed by Sean McNamara and running 141 minutes, the production is built as a straightforward historical biography rather than a satire or thriller, drawing its structure from published accounts of Reagan's life. It arrives among a small wave of English-language biographical dramas focused on twentieth-century American leaders, positioning itself as a character study of ambition, image-making and Cold War-era conviction rather than a partisan brief for or against its subject.
Where & how to watch
Reagan is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login, and this page itself is free to read without signing in. The film streams with a Persian dub as well as Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow the story in Farsi from start to finish, part of K-Time's wider effort to make English-language biography and drama accessible to the Persian-speaking diaspora.