Ragtime

• 7.0 Drama
• 1981-11-20
• 155 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Brad Dourif (Younger Brother) Howard Rollins (Coalhouse Walker Jr.) Elizabeth McGovern (Evelyn Nesbit) Mary Steenburgen (Mother) James Olson (Father) Robert Joy (Henry Thaw) Moses Gunn (Booker T. Washington) James Cagney (New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo) Kenneth McMillan (Willie Conklin) Pat O’Brien (Delmas, Thaw's Lawyer)

Director:

Miloš Forman

Writer:

Michael Weller