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The biopic of “Reagan” with Dennis Quaid playing former President Ronald Reagan will return to theaters with new scenes as America celebrates its 250th birthday.
According to Deadline, there are plans for a limited audience screening on July 4 in more than a dozen cities, and a wide release in September in 600 theaters. This theatrical release will include an additional 10 minutes of footage not included in the film’s premiere.
Deadline specified, “Additional scenes include moments between Reagan and his wife Nancy (Penelope Ann Miller) in the Oval Office, a scene between Reagan and his alcoholic father, Jack, and scenes at the Reagans’ ranch near Santa Barbara. In its first run, the film grossed more than $30 million worldwide, per Box Office Mojo.”
Director Sean McNamara said of the extended cut in the re-release, “One of the hardest things about directing a feature film is leaving amazing moments in the cutting room. I’m so excited to have some of my favorite scenes back in the film for audiences to experience for the first time.”
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Dennis Quaid plays President Ronald Reagan in the movie “REAGAN,” which is shown sitting in the Oval Office. (Noah “Nanea” Hamilton/Rawhide Pictures)
One memorable aspect of the film’s early release was its parallel to the rise of Reagan himself.
Author Paul Kengor, whose books about Reagan were used as a basis for the film and who worked directly with the filmmakers, suggested the “disparity” between the Rotten Tomatoes critics’ rating and the audience results of the film “Reagan” was compared to Reagan’s victory in the presidential election in 1980 as he remembers riding his books.
As of the time of this reporting, the “Reagan” movie on Rotten Tomatoes maintains a huge difference between the negative critics score of 17% compared to the infamous audience rating of 98%.
A writer for The Boston Globe called it “an endless hagiography” and “a 2½-hour boring bore with no knowledge of its subject.” A Washington Post critic called it “useless” as a piece of history, while The Daily Beast called it the worst movie of the year.
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Actor Dennis Quaid arrives with President Donald Trump at the Port of Corpus Christi in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Feb. 27, 2026. Trump visited Texas to deliver a briefing on affordability and economic problems less than a week before the March 3 midterm primary election. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)
Kengor said the ambivalence among audiences and critical reviews reminded him of the 1980 presidential election, which Reagan won in a landslide against the Democratic incumbent, Jimmy Carter.
“Yes, the disparity is profound,” Kengor said of the review. “Actually, it reminds me of what happened in 1984 when Ronald Reagan won 49 of the 50 states, probably about 98% of the states. If you do the math on this, 49 of the 50 states won about 60% of the vote, he won the Electoral College 525 to 13. students today, I tell other people, when you meet some liberal professor who bashes Ronald Reagan in class, just say, ‘You know, professor, but how did the guy win 49 out of 50 states?’ OK? I mean, he was loved, he was always loved.”
Fox News’ Cortney O’Brien contributed to this report.
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Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th president of the United States and 33rd governor of California, standing in front of an American flag background. (Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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