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.
16 August 1955, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
22 December 1947, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
17 October 1950, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
11 April 1933, Bow, London, England, UK
28 February 1929, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
8 February 1953, Newport, Arkansas, USA
9 December 1973, USA
23 June 1951, New York City, New York, USA
4 December 1926, New York City, New York, USA
11 March 1911, Taunton, Massachusetts, USA
11 December 1922, London, England, UK
19 January 1932, London, England, UK
21 November 1942, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
11 September 1936, Havlíckuv Brod, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
6 December 1928, New York City, New York, USA
16 January 1950, Houston, Texas, USA
8 October 1930, Evanston, Illinois, USA
26 August 1952, Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, USA
18 May 1946, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
10 April 1916, Horden, Durham, England, UK
31 July 1947, Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK
28 June 1936, Fort Vermilion, Alberta, Canada
July 01, 2004
A robust screen adaptation of Doctorow's novel about class warfare, social change, and the gap between the rich and the poorMay 12, 2003
Fine, sprawling period piece. A great swan song for Cagney.March 22, 2008
Great to see very late Cagney in solid Milos Forman film.November 15, 2004
a jumbled and largely uninteresting messJuly 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.