Ragtime (1981)
2h 35min
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The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age.
Themes:Coming Of AgePower Of MusicRacial PrejudicePursuit Of JusticeClass StruggleLove And LossSocial InequalityThe American DreamFamily DynamicsDiscover Similar ThemesMood:MelancholicSentimentalNostalgicThought-ProvokingBittersweetDiscover Similar Mood
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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Directed by: Miloš Forman, Miroslav Ondříček, Michael Stevenson
Produced by: Michael Hausman, Fred Sidewater, Bernard Williams
Composed by: Randy Newman
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.
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