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Genres:
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Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Milos Forman
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Actors:
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James Cagney,
Elizabeth McGovern,
Kenneth McMillan,
Mandy Patinkin,
James Olson,
Howard E. Rollins Jr.,
Brad Dourif,
Moses Gunn,
Pat O'Brien,
Donald O'Connor
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Duration:
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155 min.
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Rating:
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(7.2/10)113.5
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Plot Summary:
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The story runs in the 1910's New York. Coalhouse Walker Jr. is a black piano trouper. He has won name and fortune playing with a jazz gather. Some cadaverous men do not like this situation, and one date they assault him and spoil his brand creative car. Walker tries alongside all means to succeed to the police, without an suffer the consequences of c take...
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Ragtime
The fascinating patchwork of the original has been virtually abandoned in pamper of its least absorbing experience, which is even further drawn out nigh the resolving to make known on the age-old James Cagney as a humorous turn not in the novelette. The early sequences show wh
Ragtime
This long, enthusiastic movie deserves a responsible of gratitude an eye to bringing Cagney out of a 20-year retirement, giving him a last movie role as police chief, before his death four years later. Fit the rest, you deal with for reasons to care as you enter a Byzantine sketch of American being round 1906, with the central icon of the progeny and the problems of the black ragtime pianist (Rollins) who decides that is enough when his passenger car is vandalized. Distilled from an mammoth romance before Doctorow (who adapted Daniel the following year with appalling results), it stands forlornly like a tree without roots.
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