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4 December 1981 (USA)
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Not since Gone With The Wind has there been a great romantic epic like it!
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A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States. full summary | add synopsis
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Won 3 Oscars.
Another 18 wins
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21 nominations
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Warren Beatty, Steven Spielberg, Dino de Laurentiis: Governors Awards 2009
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"Reds"- A Love Story told inside period politics at the height of the Russian Revolution
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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 - Liberal Club |
| Ian Wolfe | ... | Mr. Partlow |
| Bessie Love | ... | Mrs. Partlow |
| MacIntyre Dixon | ... | Carl Walters |
| Pat Starr | ... | Helen Walters |
| Eleanor D. Wilson | ... | Mrs. Reed |
| Max Wright | ... | Floyd Dell |
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194 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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USA:PG (certificate #26524) (re-rating after appeal) |
USA:R (original rating) |
Australia:M |
UK:15 (cut) |
Singapore:M18 |
Argentina:Atp |
Chile:TE |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:12 |
Sweden:11
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While filming on location in Finland, Warren Beatty encountered several problems with the local authorities. It turned out that Finnish authorities had been asked by the Soviet Union to make shooting this film as difficult as possible, which, in order to keep good relations with their much larger neighbor, they agreed to do.
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Anachronisms: When Louise first comes to New York and finds John's apartment (during the time of WWI), some of the apartment windows behind her have air conditioning units.
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Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin once wrote, "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."
Lenin's quote came to mind when I was watching one of the most spellbinding movies to come along in years,and not since David Lean's brilliant 1965 epic classic "Doctor Zhivago" hasn't been a movie in recent memory that has come close. That motion picture is "Reds",released in 1981 by Paramount Pictures. The film was Warren Beatty's peeve project which he served not only as it star,but also the co-writer and direction. Director Warren Beatty's epic love story about American writers John Reed and Louise Bryant,set amid of the turbulence of American politics in the 1910's World War I and the Russian revolution that set this movie into plain focus. The movie itself is astounding to behold and is a tragic love story between the writers John Reed(Warren Beatty),and Louise Bryant(Diane Keaton). But it creatively used artsy,radical Greenwich Village in the 1910's-and such as real-life characters as playwright Eugene O'Neill(Jack Nicholson),and anarchist activist Emma Goldman(Maureen Stapleton)-as well as the drama of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent civil war as the principal landscapes in which their relationship plays out.
Director Beatty also made creative use of on-camera "testimony" by the likes of novelists Henry Miller and Rebecca West,Republican politician Hamilton Fish,comic George Jessel and civil libertarian Roger Baldwin. These senior citizens recall,with varying degrees of historical accuracy,Reed,Bryant and the times in which they lived. "Reds" shows convincingly that many of the contemporary issues in politics and culture have their antecendents in the first debates of the 20th century. Debates over birth control and abortion,marriage and commitment,public life versus private life,revolution versus reform are given full expression from varying viewpoints throughout the lengthy film(which runs over three hours). To Beatty's credit,his film captures the excitement the Bolshevik revolution stirred,both inside and outside Russia while revealing how the Bolshevik leadership quickly began to suppressing dissent within the revolutionary ranks on the way to becoming a dictatorship with a country that is in constant turmoil. Beatty's efforts certainly paid off artistically,bringing him prestige to him and Paramount making "Reds" a huge box office success for the studio when it premiered in theatres around Christmas of 1981.
"Reds" became one of the top highest grossing pictures of that year,and it paid off in high standards too. "Reds",which received 12 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture,lost an upset to Hugh Hudson's "Chariots Of Fire" in the Best Picture category. However it won three Oscars for Best Director(Warren Beatty),Best Supporting Actress(Maureen Stapleton),and Best Cimematopgraphy(Vittorio Storaro). Eventually,"Reds" made more than $40 million at the domestic box office,and once international figures were added in,it became one of the top grossing films of the 1980's. A feat Warren Beatty is still proud of to this day.