Reds (2007)
DVD RELEASE: Apr 2nd 2007 TOTAL FILM REVIEW
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Back in the early ’80s, at the height of right-wing Reaganite politics, to pitch a Hollywood major with a proposal for a vast megabuck epic about a bunch of ‘traitorous’ American Commies must have taken more than the average allotment of chutzpah. But then Warren Beatty has never lacked for audacity – or determination. The fact that Reds not only got made, but picked up a stack of Academy Award nominations and three Oscars (including one for Beatty as Best Director) can be credited to the mule-headed persistence of one of Tinseltown’s least conventional leading men.
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