

Ragtime
DirectorMiloš Forman
“The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age.”
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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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.

Mary Steenburgen
Mother

Debbie Allen
Sarah
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