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Ragtime(1981)
Status: Released
Date: 1981-11-20
70%
169 Votes
Time: 2h 35m
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Sunley Productions Ltd.
Movie: Ragtime
Top 10 Billed 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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