Ragtime
by Milos Forman
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Actor: Brad Dourif, Elizabeth McGovern, Howard E. Rollins Jr., James Cagney, Milos FormanDirector: Milos Forman
Brand: Paramount
Producer: Bernard Williams
Producer: Dino De Laurentiis
Producer: Fred Sidewater
Producer: Gary Khammer
Writer: E.L. Doctorow
Writer: Heinrich von Kleist
Writer: Michael Weller
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 156 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-16
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Ragtime
Movie Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
A successful adaptation of Doctorow's novel, Ragtime can't quite manage to do every storyline from the book justice but it does craft a solid movie based largely on the plot thread of Coalhouse Walker, an African-American who refuses to silently accept racism; a well-made slice of Americana (albeit directed by a Czech), it's worth a look.
Summary of Ragtime
Based on the popular novel by E.L. Doctorow, RAGTIME tells the story of four New York families at the turn of the 20th century. Starving immigrant artist, Tateh sets off to make his fortune in Hollywood, but along the way encounters showgirl Evelyn Nesbit who is at the center of a murder investigation. Meanwhile, an upper-class family finds their seemingly perfect existence ruined when black pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr. begins to romance a pregnant girl living in their home.Fact and fiction intertwine in Milos Forman's colorful kaleidoscope of E.L. Doctorow's sprawling novel of turn-of-the-century America. Anchored in the true story of the murder of architect Stanford White (Norman Mailer) by Harry Thaw (Robert Joy) over the affections of his wife Evelyn Nesbit (Elizabeth McGovern), Forman weaves a portrait of early 1900s America in a tapestry of intertwining fictional tales. The primary thread involves the proud black pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr. (Howard Rollins) and his demand for justice when a racist fireman destroys his automobile, which escalates into a reign of terror by Walker and a band of revolutionaries. A secondary story involves an ambitious immigrant artist (Mandy Patinkin) whose primitive flipbooks send him on the road to creating early cinema. Centering all of these stories in one way or another is an upper-class family known simply as Father (James Olson), Mother (Mary Steenburgen), and Younger Brother (Brad Dourif). James Cagney came out of a twenty-year retirement to play the irascible Irish police commissioner, a character created for the film. Forman's biggest departure from Doctorow's novel, however, is his focus on Walker's story, cutting away the other threads to little more than asides in the final half of the picture, the primary dramatic weakness of an otherwise rich evocation of America's past. Randy Newman's lyrical score and Miroslav Ondricek's understated cinematography earned two of the film's eight Academy Awards nominations --Sean Axmaker
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