Movie

Ragtime (1981)

• PG
• November 20, 1981
• 2h 35m

• Drama
• History

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

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

Writers

E. L. Doctorow, Michael Weller

Starring

James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn