- Studio: Paramount Pictures
- Release Date: Nov 20, 1981
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- Starring: Elizabeth McGovern, Howard E. Rollins Jr., James Cagney
- Summary: Set in the early 1900s, an upper middle class family takes in a young African-American woman and her infant son. When the father of the child returns, everything changes.
- Director: Milos Forman
- Genre(s): Drama
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88Rgatime is a loving, beautifully mounted, graceful film that creates its characters with great clarity.
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80The page-turning joys of E.L. Doctorow's bestselling Ragtime, which dizzily and entertainingly charted a kaleidoscopic vision of a turn-of-century America in the midst of intense social change, have been realized almost completely in Milos Forman's superbly crafted screen adaptation.
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60The movie is sorrowful, funny and beautiful. It is also, finally, very unsatisfactory.
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38Except for the evocative sets and Randy Newman's upbeat musical score, Ragtime is better read than seen. [18 Dec 1981]
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