Ragtime (1981)

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

Movie · Drama, History · 2h 35m · Rated 7.0/10 on TMDB · Released November 20, 1981

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.

Directed by Miloš Forman

Cast

• James Cagney as New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo
• Brad Dourif as Younger Brother
• Moses Gunn as Booker T. Washington
• Elizabeth McGovern as Evelyn Nesbit
• Kenneth McMillan as Willie Conklin
• Pat O'Brien as Delmas
• Donald O'Connor as Evelyn's Dance Instructor
• James Olson as Father
• Mandy Patinkin as Tateh
• Howard Rollins as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
• Mary Steenburgen as Mother
• Debbie Allen as Sarah

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