Search - Reds [25th Anniversary Edition] on DVD

MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1981 DVD Release: 10/10/2006 Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 2 Number of Discs: 2 Run Time: 3 hrs 15 mins Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 12 Genres: Epic, Historical Film, Biopic [feature], Historical Epic, Romantic Epic See Also: Reds [HD DVD], Reds [Blu-ray], Reds [I Love the 80's Edition], Reds [25th Anniversary Edition]

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

Warren Beatty - John Reed
Diane Keaton - Louise Bryant
Edward Herrmann - Max Eastman
Jerzy Kosinski - Grigory Zinoviev
Jack Nicholson - Eugene O'Neill