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
Bessie Love
as Mrs. Partlow
MacIntyre Dixon
as Carl Walters
