Ragtime
“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
112 people
James Cagney
New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo
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Brad Dourif
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Moses Gunn
Booker T. Washington
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Elizabeth McGovern
Evelyn Nesbit
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Kenneth McMillan
Willie Conklin
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Pat O'Brien
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Donald O'Connor
Evelyn's Dance Instructor
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Toys
James Olson
Father
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Mandy Patinkin
Tateh
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Howard Rollins
Coalhouse Walker Jr.
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Mary Steenburgen
Mother
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Debbie Allen
Sarah
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Fame
Miloš Forman Director · Michael Weller Screenplay E. L. Doctorow Author
Director
Miloš Forman
Screenplay
Michael Weller
Author
E. L. Doctorow
Composer
Randy Newman
Cinematographer
Miroslav Ondříček
Editor
Anne V. Coates
Editor
Antony Gibbs
Editor
Stanley Warnow
Production designer
Patrizia von Brandenstein
Production designer
Tony Reading
Production designer
John Graysmark
Costume designer
Anna Hill Johnstone
Worldwide gross $21M · Budget $28M · United States release November 20, 1981
Box office
Budget
$28,300,000
Worldwide gross
$21,200,000
Gross vs. budget
0.7×
Production
The De Laurentiis Company
Production
Sunley Productions Ltd.
Production
Paramount Pictures
Studio · Production
Dino De Laurentiis Company
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · November 20, 1981
Theatrical
Czechia
November 1, 1993 · Physical
France
January 6, 1982 · Theatrical
Japan
January 22, 1983 · Theatrical
Netherlands
September 23, 1982 · Theatrical
July 19, 2003 · TV · Nederland 1
Russia
September 27, 2007 · Physical · DVD
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