Reds (1981) 



PG,3hrs 15min

Genres:Drama,Romance
Released: December 4, 1981
Director:Warren Beatty
Distributor:Paramount
 
Starring:
Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, cameo appearance
by Gene Hackman
 
Synopsis:
Few filmmakers other than Warren Beatty would have had the courage
and vision to fashion an epic film from the life of famed American Communist
John Reed (who is the only US citizen buried in the Kremlin). The film is an
effort to humanize a political movement that has previously been depicted on
screen in a series of unsubtle and prejudicial broad strokes. The film begins
in 1915, when Reed (Beatty) makes the acquaintance of married Portland
journalist Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton). So persuasive is Reed's point of view--
and so charismatic is Reed himself-- that Bryant kicks over the traces and joins
Reed and his fellow radicals. Among the famous personages depicted herein
are Emma Goldman (Maureen Stapleton), Eugene O'Neill (Jack Nicholson)
and Max Eastman (Richard Herrmann). The second half of this nearly-200-
minute film skims through the years when Reed, now a Russian resident,
becomes disillusioned by the harsh realities of Bolshevism. Despite the
celebrity line-up of real-life "witnesses" to the events depicted in the film
(ranging from novelist Henry Miller to comedian George Jessel!), historians
took Reds to task for its oversimplification of events and its laundering of the
notoriously promiscuous Louise Bryant. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide


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