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Ragtime
A kaleidoscope of tales from E.L. Doctorow's eponymous novel evokes life in pre-World War I New York City. 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.
22 February 1938, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 January 1950, Houston, Texas, USA
10 June 1949, Newport News, Virginia, USA
25 September 1958, London, England, UK
4 December 1926, New York City, New York, USA
11 September 1936, Havlíckuv Brod, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
5 December 1938, USA
May 12, 2003
Fine, sprawling period piece. A great swan song for Cagney.
July 10, 2011
Sporadically engaging, Milos Forman's chronicle of American society and culture in the beginning of the twentieth century is too sprawling and dramatically diffuse, though some of the acting is excellent.
November 15, 2004
a jumbled and largely uninteresting mess
July 01, 2004
A robust screen adaptation of Doctorow's novel about class warfare, social change, and the gap between the rich and the poor
March 22, 2008
Great to see very late Cagney in solid Milos Forman film.
