Ragtime
1981 · 155 min
Directed by Miloš Forman. Written by Michael Weller. Starring James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern.
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.
Critics 85% · audiences 77% · 7 Oscar nominations