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Ragtime

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

1981 · PG · 2h 35m

Directed by Miloš Forman

7.0

TMDB audience score
200 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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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

  • Hoolihand Burke
    Brigit

  • Norman Chancer
    Gent No. 1 - Agent