Reds (1981 film)

Set during World War I, the 1981 movie Reds stars Warren Beatty as journalist John Reed -- a man who tries to bring home to the United States communist ideals he picked up in Russia. Beatty also wrote and directed the film.

Journalist John Reed travels to Russia during the era of the October Revolution, where he meets Louise Bryant, and adopts the Communist ideals being instilled there. Louise and John fall for each other and she joins him in his new-found ideals. John returns to the United States with Louise where they begin trying to spread Communist principles.

This movie is semi-biographical and also presented interviews with people who survived the tumultuous October Revolution.

• Warren Beatty as John Reed

• Diane Keaton as Louise Bryant

• Jack Nicholson as Eugene O'Niell

• Paul Sorvino as Louis Fraina

• Maureen Stapleton as Emma Goldman

"...one of the most ambitious Hollywood films of the 1980s. The movie tries to do too much, be an historical epic, a romantic adventure, and a political drama all in one film."—Emmanuel Levy, EmmanuelLevy.comhttp://www.emanuellevy.com/search/details.cfm?id=2999

"The whole movie finally comes down to the fact that the characters matter to us."—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Timeshttp://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19810101/REVIEWS/101010361/1023