Ragtime (1981)
20/11/1981
Drama, History
2h 35m
- 70% (168 votes)
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The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age.
Overview
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
- Miloš FormanDirector
- Michael Weller Screenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Keywords
- new york city
- based on novel or book
- jazz singer or musician
- public murder
- racism
- class differences
- pianist
- ragtime
- revenge killing
- radical politics
- piano
- political scandal
- racial injustice
- 1900s
- social scandal
- new york city history
Top Billed Cast
James Cagney
New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo
Brad Dourif
Younger Brother
Moses Gunn
Booker T. Washington
Elizabeth McGovern
Evelyn Nesbit
Kenneth McMillan
Willie Conklin
Pat O’Brien
Delmas
Donald O'Connor
Evelyn's Dance Instructor
James Olson
Father
Mandy Patinkin
Tateh
Howard Rollins
Coalhouse Walker Jr.
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