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Ragtime
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Based on 8 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Art/Independent | Drama
Written by:
Michael Weller and Heinrich von Kleist
Michael Kohlhaas (story)
E.L. Doctorow (novel)
Directed by: Milos Forman
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 20, 1981
DVD: November 16, 2004
Running Time: 155 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG
Starring James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern, and Kenneth McMillan
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.
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What The Critics Said
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Rgatime is a loving, beautifully mounted, graceful film that creates its characters with great clarity.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jay Scott
Ragtime itself twinkles with delight - perhaps only an immigrant, and a recent one, could have made this film, which looks squarely at the social problems gnawing at North America but which finds, within them and without them, cause for hope. [20 Nov 1981]
Variety Staff (Not Credited)
The 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.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Vincent Canby
The movie is sorrowful, funny and beautiful. It is also, finally, very unsatisfactory.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
Forman and Weller have created an impressive but strangely lopsided movie.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Michael Blowen
Except for the evocative sets and Randy Newman's upbeat musical score, Ragtime is better read than seen. [18 Dec 1981]
Chicago Reader Dave Kehr
What's left is a curiously disconnected illustration of American racism, which nevertheless fails to realize the power and irony inherent in its pop-Marxist analysis.
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