Reds (1981)
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Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 2
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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
Dec 4, 1981 Wide
Oct 17, 2006
Paramount Home Video
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Cast
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Warren Beatty
John Reed -
Diane Keaton
Louise Bryant -
Edward Herrmann
Max Eastman -
Jerzy Kosinski
Grigory Zinoviev -
Jack Nicholson
Eugene O'Neill -
Paul Sorvino
Louis Fraina -
Maureen Stapleton
Emma Goldman -
Nicolas Coster
Paul Trullinger -
M. Emmet Walsh
Speaker at the Liberal ... -
Ian Wolfe
Mr. Partlow -
Bessie Love
Mrs. Partlow -
R.G. Armstrong
Agent -
Roger Baldwin
Witness -
Ramon Bieri
Police Chief -
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Joseph Buloff
Joe Volski -
Norman Chancer
Barney -
Brenda Currin
Marjorie Jones -
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Macintyre Dixon
Carl Walters -
Will Durant
Witness -
Kathryn Grody
Crystal Eastman -
Stefan Gryff
Alex Gomberg -
Gene Hackman
Pete Van Wherry -
Jerry Hardin
Harry -
Gerald Hiken
Dr. Lorber -
Jack Kehoe
Eddie -
Åke Lindman
Escort -
Christopher Malcolm
C.I.P. Party Member -
Jack O'Leary
Pinkerton Guard -
George Plimpton
Horace Whigham -
Stuart Richman
Leon Trotsky -
Shane Rimmer
MacAlpine -
Tony Sibbald
CLP Member -
Roger Sloman
Vladimir Lenin -
Pat Starr
Helen Walters -
Dolph Sweet
Big Bill Haywood -
Jan Triska
Karl Radek -
Rebecca West
Witness -
Eleanor D. Wilson
Mrs. Reed -
William Daniels
Julius Gerber -
Harry Ditson
Maurice Becker -
George Jessel
Witness -
Dave King
Allan Benson -
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Josef Sommer
Official -
Max Wright
Floyd Dell -
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Leigh Curran
Ida Rauh -
Art Shields
Witness -
Hamilton Fish III
Witness -
Arthur Mayer
Witness
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As for Beatty, Reds is his bravura turn.
Top CriticReds is an extremely fine film.
Warren Beatty's political epic features superlative performances and speaks to the inner-rebel in each of us.
Filled with rich ideas.
Vittorio Storaro, who won an Oscar for his cinematography, keeps the long film moving at a healthy pace, mixing static shots with subtle camera movement, never showing off or detracting from the story.
Reds proves that movies on this huge of a scale can be full of ideas and do not have to rely on action alone.
an epic love story ... As a teenager I saw it four times in the theater (which I now find pretty astonishing, considering the movie is well more than three hours long -- I had a lot more free time in 1981!)
Viewed today, it's not so effortlessly impressive, but it's still an uncommonly intelligent and quite entertaining film.
One of the most ambitious Hollywood films of the 80s, Reds is trying to do too much (historical epic, political expose, and romance), but the insertion of interviews with contemporaries of John Reed is original and poignant.
It's tragic that more American filmmakers aren't taking risks like this at a time like this.
A left-leaning pretty boy's distended, black book ramblings.
A handsome, unsatisfying DVD of a handsome, unsatisfying epic.
Marred by historical bluff and jarring cutesiness, 'Reds' is nevertheless the sweeping melodramatic stuff of classic moviemaking.
Were it not for the antique clothing and music, you wouldn't know that the dialogue isn't taking place in the 21st century.
Reds is finally just an appealingly conventional epic movie-star romance with radical trimmings, but it contains several sharper elements that suggest the colorful period it seeks to recreate.
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