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Ragtime

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

70
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PG 1981 · 2h 35m
Drama, History
Starring James Cagney · Brad Dourif · Moses Gunn
Apple TV Available on Apple TV
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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.

Theatrical
Nov 20, 1981
DVD / Blu-ray
Nov 16, 2004
Director
Miloš Forman
Writer
Michael Weller
Producers
Michael Hausman, Bernard Williams, Fred Sidewater
Music
Randy Newman
Studio
The De Laurentiis Company, Sunley Productions Ltd.
Keywords
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
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Cast

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J
James Cagney
New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo
B
Brad Dourif
Younger Brother
M
Moses Gunn
Booker T. Washington
E
Elizabeth McGovern
Evelyn Nesbit
K
Kenneth McMillan
Willie Conklin
P
Pat O'Brien
Delmas
D
Donald O'Connor
Evelyn's Dance Instructor
J
James Olson
Father
M
Mandy Patinkin
Tateh
H
Howard Rollins
Coalhouse Walker Jr.
M
Mary Steenburgen
Mother
D
Debbie Allen
Sarah
J
Jeffrey DeMunn
Harry Houdini
R
Robert Joy
Henry Thaw
N
Norman Mailer
Stanford White
B
Bruce Boa
Jerome
H
Hoolihand Burke
Brigit
N
Norman Chancer
Gent No. 1 - Agent
E
Edwin Cooper
Grandfather
J
Jeff Daniels
P.C. O'Donnell
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