Ragtime poster
Director Miloš Forman
Screenplay Michael Weller

Ragtime

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

Release Date: 1981-11-20

Duration: 155 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Samuel L. Jackson
    Gang Member No. 2
  • Elizabeth McGovern
    Evelyn Nesbit
  • Brad Dourif
    Younger Brother
  • Mary Steenburgen
    Mother
  • Frankie Faison
    Gang Member No. 1
  • Fran Drescher
    Mameh
  • Michael Jeter
    Special Reporter
  • Richard Griffiths
    Delmas' Assistant No. 1
  • Jeffrey DeMunn
    Harry Houdini
  • Jeff Daniels
    P.C. O'Donnell