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Ragtime (1981)

PG ★ 7.0/10 155 min Drama, History United States English
Director: Miloš Forman
Novel: E. L. Doctorow
Screenplay by: Michael Weller
Streaming: Not available
The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age.

Description

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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James Cagney
James Cagney New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo
Brad Dourif
Brad Dourif Younger Brother
Moses Gunn
Moses Gunn Booker T. Washington
Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern Evelyn Nesbit
Kenneth McMillan
Kenneth McMillan Willie Conklin
Pat O'Brien
Pat O'Brien Delmas
Donald O'Connor
Donald O'Connor Evelyn's Dance Instructor
James Olson
James Olson Father

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