Ragtime

  • Drama
  • History
11/20/1981
155
PG

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.

Director:
Miloš Forman
Writer:
Michael Weller
    • 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

    Videos

    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.
    • Mary Steenburgen
      Mother
    • Debbie Allen
      Sarah
    • Jeffrey DeMunn
      Harry Houdini
    • Robert Joy
      Henry Thaw
    • Norman Mailer
      Stanford White
    • Bruce Boa
      Jerome

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