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Ragtime

[1981, Movie]

Ragtime: Review

Elizabeth McGovern, Mandy Patinkin

Although more than $32 million was pumped into this kaleidoscopic portrait of American life in 1906, RAGTIME is too long, too splintered in its characterizations, and too much of a good thing squeezed dry. The most impressive aspect of the film is the return, after a 20-year hiatus, of top-billed Cagney, at age 81, to play a feisty NYC police commissioner. Based on Doctorow's novel, the film balances several themes and four families--one factual, three fictional. The most ... read more

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Year: 1981
Rated PG

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James Cagney: Police Commissioner Waldo
Brad Dourif: Younger Brother
Moses Gunn: Booker T. Washington
Elizabeth McGovern: Evelyn Nesbit
Kenneth McMillan: Willie Conklin
Pat O'Brien: Delmas

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