Ragtime (1981)

  • PG
  • 11/20/1981 (US)
  • Drama, History
  • 2h 35m

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 Forman

Director

E. L. Doctorow

Novel

Michael Weller

Screenplay

Cast

Brad Dourif's headshot

Brad Dourif

Younger Brother
Howard Rollins's headshot

Howard Rollins

Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Elizabeth McGovern's headshot

Elizabeth McGovern

Evelyn Nesbit
Mary Steenburgen's headshot

Mary Steenburgen

Mother
James Olson's headshot

James Olson

Father
Robert Joy's headshot

Robert Joy

Henry Thaw
Moses Gunn's headshot

Moses Gunn

Booker T. Washington
James Cagney's headshot

James Cagney

New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo

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