Ragtime

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

Plot Summary

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

7.0 /10

1981

US

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new york city

based on novel or book

jazz singer or musician

public murder

racism

class differences

pianist

ragtime

revenge killing

radical politics

piano

political scandal

racial injustice

1900s

social scandal