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- 1981
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 35 m
- 1981
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 35 m
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.
Directed By: Milos Forman
Written By: E.L. Doctorow, Michael Weller, Heinrich von Kleist
- 1981
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 35 m
- 1981
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 35 m
Ragtime
57
5.9
Where to Watch
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.
Directed By: Milos Forman
Written By: E.L. Doctorow, Michael Weller, Heinrich von Kleist
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
57
50% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
25% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
57
50% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
25% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
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]
Rgatime is a loving, beautifully mounted, graceful film that creates its characters with great clarity.
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.
The movie is sorrowful, funny and beautiful. It is also, finally, very unsatisfactory.
Except for the evocative sets and Randy Newman's upbeat musical score, Ragtime is better read than seen. [18 Dec 1981]
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.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 User Ratings
5.9
50% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
17% Mixed
2 Ratings
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33% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 User Ratings
5.9
50% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
17% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
33% Negative
4 Ratings
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Production Company
Dino De Laurentiis Company,
Sunley Productions Ltd.
Release Date Nov 20, 1981
Duration 2 h 35 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was Ragtime
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 8 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 7 Nominations
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
