Ragtime

Ragtime (1981)

The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age.

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.

Date of release
1981-11-20
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (198)
Runtime
2h 35m
Genres
Drama, History
Director
Miloš Forman

Casting

  • 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.
  • Mary Steenburgen — Mother
  • Debbie Allen — Sarah

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