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.
- Year: 1981
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama, History
- Studio: Paramount Pictures, The De Laurentiis Company, Sunley Productions Ltd.
- Keyword: new york city, based on novel or book, jazz singer or musician, public murder, racism, class differences, pianist, ragtime, revenge killing, radical politics, piano, political scandal, racial injustice, 1900s, social scandal
- Director: Miloš Forman
- Cast: Brad Dourif, Howard Rollins, Elizabeth McGovern, Mary Steenburgen, James Olson, Robert Joy