Ragtime (1981)

Drama, History • PT2H35M

Ragtime

Overview

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.

Director: Miloš Forman

Top Cast

  • James Cagney as New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo
  • Brad Dourif as Younger Brother
  • Moses Gunn as Booker T. Washington
  • Elizabeth McGovern as Evelyn Nesbit
  • Kenneth McMillan as Willie Conklin

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