Not since Gone with the Wind has there been a great romantic epic like it!
An 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.
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Contemplative, grave, epic and earnest.
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- GenerationofSwineon TMDB · Jan 20231/10
this is about John Reed, right? The guy that road with Poncho Villa and wrote "Insurgent Mexico" as he covered that Civil War from the front line? That is an interesting man. That is a daring man. Agree with his politics or not, that is someone that a movie SHOULD be made about. But this isn't about "Insurgent Mexico" it's about his other book, "10 Days that Shook the World," the book where he wrote about something that he didn't really understand completely and was denied witness to, well, horrific mass killings. But, you know the Russian Revolution is EXTREMELY interesting isn't it? Even if he was spoon-fed what he wrote, just being there to cover that would make for one interesting film too wouldn't it? Only... it's not really about that either is it? It's kind of about John Reed not doing anything too exciting, like the took the parts of his life that you would WANT to see a movie about, and decided NOT to make the movie about those parts. And the result is that, well, honestly, it's boring. And you are left wondering "How could someone make a boring movie about John Reed?" And unfortunately you walk away from it having found out the answer to that question: "By making a movie
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Cast
- Warren BeattyJohn Reed
- Diane KeatonLouise Bryant
- Edward HerrmannMax Eastman
- Jerzy KosińskiGrigory Zinoviev
- Jack NicholsonEugene O'Neill
- Paul SorvinoLouis Fraina
- Maureen StapletonEmma Goldman
- Nicolas CosterPaul Trullinger
- M. Emmet WalshSpeaker at Liberal Club
- Ian WolfeMr. Partlow
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- Warren BeattyDirector
- Warren BeattyWriter
- Trevor GriffithsWriter
- Vittorio StoraroDirector of Photography
- Stephen SondheimOriginal Music Composer
- Dave GrusinOriginal Music Composer
- Dede AllenEditor
- Craig McKayEditor
- Warren BeattyProducer
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