Ragtime
The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age.
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11/20/1981Runtime
155 minsOverview
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.
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A sprawling, operatic examination of early 20th-century America's racial and class fractures, anchored by the collision between a gifted Black pianist and an elite white family whose worlds collide with violent consequences. It's ambitious and formally assured, structured around genuine moral outrage even as it moves at stately, deliberate pace.
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Heads up
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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