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1989
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Coalhouse (in a superb performance by Howard E. Rollins, Jr.) meets the family by accident, or maybe by fate. A young black woman gives birth to Coalhouse's son, and then the family takes in both the woman and her son, hiring her as their maid. Coalhouse comes calling. He wants to marry the mother of his child.
A kaleidoscope of tales from E.L. Doctorow's eponymous novel evokes life in pre-World War I New York City. A white family find a black baby in their yard and takes on the mother as a maid. A black ...
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- Milos Forman
- PG
- James Cagney
There is a lingering sense among some Broadway buffs that “Ragtime,” which received mixed reviews and didn’t last long enough to become a megahit, was cheated of some of its due.
Ragtime has emerged as a classic film. Its astonishing array of great performances--literally a score of them, from Howard Rollins's truly tragic stand for human dignity at the film's center to James Cagney's historic return to film at the end of his life and the end of this motion picture--would almost alone qualify this as a great motion picture.
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The film flounders in its rhythms, and the editing is sometimes jagged, suggesting that there should be more than there is. Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 6, 2022. Allison Rose ...
Ragtime - Metacritic. 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. Drama.
Nov 20, 1981 · MILOS FORMAN'S ''Ragtime,'' adapted by Michael Weller from E.L. Doctorow's rambunctious, kaleidescopic novel, begins and ends with a dreamlike image - a pair of ballroom dancers, caught in a ...
