How Cold War Trauma And ‘70s Cinema Inspired Reagan-Gorbachev Drama ‘The Brink Of War’

'The Brink of War' highlights Reagan’s fight for religious freedom in the USSR

Jeff Daniels and Jared Harris bring former President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s Cold War showdown to life in “The Brink of War,” revealing how faith, religious freedom and the willingness to keep talking across deep divides helped change history.

'The Brink of War' Review: Angel Studios' Shallow Cold War History Lesson

Written and directed by Michael Russell Gunn (“Designated Survivor,” “Billions”), “The Brink of War” tells a story less powerful because of its subject matter than the deeper truths — sociopolitical, but more importantly, humanistic — that it illustrates. Jeff Daniels stars as Ronald Reagan opposite Jared Harris as Mikhail Gorbachev in a dramatization of the Reykjavik Summit of 1986, where the world’s greatest superpowers first began to initiate…

This conservative studio just accidentally made a movie slapping down Trump

Given that Angel Studios has a well-known conservative bent, I highly doubt that the filmmakers behind "The Brink of War" intended to make a movie that implicitly criticizes President Donald Trump. Nevertheless, merely by juxtaposing President Ronald Reagan's behavior during the famous Reykjavík Summit in 1986 with Trump's own transactional, belligerent and bullying approach to foreign policy, "The Brink of War" serves as a scathing critique.It …

The True Story Behind 'The Brink of War'

Jeff Daniels as President Ronald Reagan —Courtesy of Angel StudiosThe Reykjavik Summit—when U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev talked in person in 1986—is not known as an iconic bit of American history. But the face-to-face conversation between the leaders, held over Oct. 11 and 12 in the Icelandic capital, proved to be an important step toward the end of the Cold War. The summit (or meeting, depending on w…

'We’ve Forgotten How To Talk to One Another'—Jeff Daniels, Jared Harris, and Michael Russell Gunn Discuss Angel's 'The Brink of War'

“The Brink of War,” a new historical drama starring Jeff Daniels (“Speed,” “Dumb and Dumber,” “The Martian”) and Jared Harris (“The Crown,” “Mad Men”), portrays one of the most important meetings of the Cold War and offers a timely reminder about the importance of talking with those with whom we profoundly disagree. Released in theaters […]

Jeff Daniels and Jared Harris Face Off as Reagan and Gorbachev in The Brink of War, a Talky But Earnest Cold War Drama

The Brink of War is now playing in theaters.Writer-director Michael Russell Gunn’s well-meaning feature film debut, The Brink of War, takes a wordy, academic approach to chronicling the two momentous days in October 1986 when US President Ronald Reagan (Jeff Daniels) and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (Jared Harris) sat across a table in a house in Reykjavik, Iceland hoping to strike a landmark nuclear disarmament deal designed to keep the Cold…