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Ragtime (1981)

Ragtime (1981)

Drama History

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

Release Date: 1981, November 20
Directors: Miloš Forman
Countries: United States of America
Production: The De Laurentiis Company, The De Laurentiis Company, Sunley Productions Ltd., Sunley Productions Ltd.
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Jeffrey DeMunn, Richard Griffiths, Fran Drescher, Michael Jeter, Harry Fielder, Derek Lyons, Burnell Tucker, John Ratzenberger, Robert Joy, Brad Dourif, George Harris

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.

Keywords:

new york city based on novel or book piano racism class differences pianist public murder jazz singer or musician revenge killing 1900s new york city history political scandal ragtime radical politics racial injustice social scandal