Day Reagan Was Shot (2001)

"There's alot of meat in this historical movie...  Tim Goodman, San Francisco Chronicle

Editor's Note On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley, trying to prove his love for actress Jodie Foster, attempts to assassinate President Ronald Reagan (Richard Crenna) in front of the Washington Hilton. Only 70 days into his term, Reagan takes a bullet between the heart and lung and is forced into the hospital. Meanwhile, with Vice President Bush in transit, Secretary of State Alexander Haig (Richard Dreyfus) takes control at the White House only to find himself close to nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union. This thought-provoking film, which originally aired on the Showtime network, utilizes various sources to provide a portrait of an infamous day in American history which was fraught with far more chaos than the public even knew.

	Colm Feore
	Kenneth Welsh
	Michael Murphy
	Richard Crenna
	Richard Dreyfuss
	Yannick Bisson
	Michael McMurray - Cinematographer
	Cyrus Nowrasteh - Director
	Paul Seydor - Editor
	Elizabeth Trivers - Musical Score
	Armand Leo - Producer
	Jasna Stefanovic - Production Designer
	Cyrus Nowrasteh - Writer

USA Today
"...Compelling....Filled with a lot of fascinating backroom infighting, the movies becomes extremely tense during the hospital scenes when it becomes clear that Reagan was wounded far more severely than the staff had thought..." 11/01/2002 p.12E