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6.9An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
Cast
- Warren Beatty as John Reed
- Diane Keaton as Louise Bryant
- Edward Herrmann as Max Eastman
- Jerzy Kosiński as Grigory Zinoviev
- Jack Nicholson as Eugene O'Neill
- Paul Sorvino as Louis Fraina
Themes
- husband wife relationship
- world war i
- war correspondent
- biography
- based on true story
- co-workers relationship
- docudrama
- russian revolution (1917)
- russian history
- greenwich village
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Ratings
IMDb
7.3/10
25,850 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
90%
Metacritic
76/100
- Year
- 1981
- Runtime
- 195 min
- Genres
- Biography, Drama, History
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- Won 3 Oscars. 22 wins & 37 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Warren Beatty
- Screenplay by
- Warren Beatty Trevor Griffiths
- Produced by
- Warren Beatty
- Starring
- Warren Beatty Diane Keaton Edward Herrmann Jerzy Kosiński Jack Nicholson Paul Sorvino Maureen Stapleton
- Cinematography
- Vittorio Storaro
- Edited by
- Dede Allen Craig McKay
- Music by
- Stephen Sondheim Dave Grusin
- Production companies
- Barclays Mercantile Industrial Finance JRS Productions
- Distributed by
- Paramount Pictures
- Release date
- December 4, 1981 ( 1981-12-04 )
- Running time
- 195 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Languages
- English Russian German
- Budget
- $32 million
- Box office
- $40.4 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 194
- FilmAffinity ID
- 580772
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- publication date
- 1982-04-23
- title
- Reds
- review score
- 7.3/10
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Reds is a 1981 American epic historical drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty, about the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the October Revolution in Russia in his 1919 book Ten Days That Shook the World. Beatty stars in the lead role alongside Diane Keaton as activist Louise Bryant and Jack Nicholson as playwright Eugene O'Neill.
The supporting cast includes Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosiński, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton, Gene Hackman, Ramon Bieri, Nicolas Coster and M. Emmet Walsh. The film also features, as "witnesses", interviews with the 98-year-old radical educator and peace activist Scott Nearing, author Dorothy Frooks, reporter and author George Seldes, civil liberties advocate Roger Baldwin and writer Henry Miller, among others. George Jessel, who died shortly before the film was released, appears as one of the contemporaries of Reed and Bryant who were interviewed.