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.

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

Maureen Stapleton
as Emma Goldman

Nicolas Coster
as Paul Trullinger

M. Emmet Walsh
as Speaker at Liberal Club

Ian Wolfe
as Mr. Partlow
GenerationofSwine
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...