# Ragtime (1981)

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**Runtime**: 155 min
**Genres**: Drama, History
**Directed by**: Miloš Forman
**Written by**: Michael Weller	
**Starring**: James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern, Kenneth McMillan, Pat O'Brien

> *The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Giant meets Doctorow. A young black pianist intersects with an upper-class white family. Carries the era's tensions.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, slow-burn

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